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British churchmen look to America’s example on welfare…

Rondo alla Turca Alev Scott Counterpoints Europe 25/02/2014 Tayyip Erdoğan: His courting of the EU is a charade Slice 1 In January, the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan arrived to great fanfare

Looking for Proust Lucy Raitz Counterpoints Literature 25/02/2014 Marcel Proust: As courageous as his hero Slice 1 Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure . So reads the elegant graffiti along

It was a calm, cold day when Barack Obama invited François Hollande to Monticello, Virginia, the grand mountaintop home of Thomas Jefferson…

Alan Greenspan’s reputation has suffered but The Map and the Territory is a reminder of his vast contribution to American public life…

Completion is a dazzling debut by a promising young novelist…

Veronese has been hiding in plain sight. The pomp and drama of his vast works deserve a closer look…

What would have happened if the meteor that hit Siberia in February 2013 had been hurtling towards the Middle East? Israeli scientists say they have…

It is one mark of the historical importance of Margaret Thatcher that she has inspired three full-dress political biographies within seven months of her death and, still more significantly, that all three

In Tobias Smollett's great, romping 18th-century novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, our hero Matthew Bramble, a country squire, leaves his adored estate Brambleton Hall and spends a season in London. Writing

Swift's life was unusually rich in legends, rumours, stories and uncertainties, as Leo Damrosch reminds us in the prologue to this engaging and refreshing new biography: Even the basic facts concerning Swift's

Jeremy Black is unquestionably the most prolific academic historian in Britain and quite possibly the world. Born in 1955, he has already earned 143 entries in the Bodleian catalogue, while Cambridge University