Books

Just a little note to say “I hate you”

Poisoned pens pierce the veil of sociable living

Why a great artist stopped painting

Even Dürer was probably a little surprised

Restoring the numinous

The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills

The sadness of Andrews

A grim new book about racism fails to make its case

Murders for November

Killings amid the crunch of leaves

Academic dynamite

An important, if difficult, contribution to debates around sex and gender

What happened to the working class intellectual

Young people are not being encouraged or inspired

God is in the details even of secular history

The story of the Middle East cannot be explained without religion

A Boy’s Own book of anti-colonialism

Could a progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders?

Fighting back against the IRA mob

Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave