The iPhone, not the I Ching
"What exactly is China anyway? Is it a civilisation, as some claim? Or a “civilisation state”, with unique cultural markers but within set borders?"
Illiberal and irrelevant
"Francis Green and David Kynaston do not like private schools. They think the government should do something to stop children attending them. Why? You already know the answer."
Daddy, I hardly knew you
Linn Ullmann's novel Unquiet interweaves her childhood with conversations with her father Ingmar Bergman — a work of both memory and imagination
The art of survival in Nazi Germany
Artists in the Third Reich swiftly learnt to adapt to Hitler’s traditionalist cultural diktats
Jolly Bad Taste vs. feeble Good Taste
Sir Les Patterson or Poundbury, Roy Wood or Richard Rogers, dodgy clubs or lusty yeomen?
The girlhood of Philip Larkin
The key to the poet’s early obsession with girls’-school stories may lie with his sister Kitty
Alan Greenspan’s bubble deflated
"Alan Greenspan was a good Fed chairman, but his reputation was grossly over-inflated"
Don’t worry, be wealthy
Paul Dolan's Happy Ever After frustratingly fails to address obvious questions about our idea of happiness
Goodbye to all that
A charming and engaging memoir of a world long gone
Powerful stuff: I can’t wait for the sequel
The novel in verse is nothing new, but Homer's Iliad is fast-paced and full of surprises