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Through a glass, darkly
Nick Cohen on the ill-starred but seductive love affair between writers and alcohol
The enduring appeal of the Mitford family
As the BBC’s adaptation of The Pursuit of Love begins, Alexander Larman questions whether the new dramatisation will do justice to Nancy Mitford’s 1945 novel
Temple to craft and prestige
A beautiful and unusual book can lift the spirits of even the most jaded reviewer
Despising all that they hold dear
Politics is but a subset; the true villain is belief, says Jonathon Green of Jonathan Meades’s new release
Deeply flawed life of Cap’n Bob
Christopher Silvester reveals how this biography of Robert Maxwell is a skilfully constructed page-turner
Match of the dull
How Match of the Day needs modernising
New universities in the early Eighties: an elegy
Steve Morris reflects on his time at the University of East Anglia with his contemporary, Iain Dale
Elusive quest for impartiality
I would cavil at the curse of the presenter monologue, tending to sway the audience one way or the other, reveals Anne McElvoy
Sagas to savour
Was Iceland responsible for the French Revolution, the moon landing and the discovery of America?
Letter from Washington: Team Musk
Why we need more Elons