Christopher Hitchens remains unforgettable

On the hunks and lunks who dominated two decades of Hollywood

A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade

Two new titles join a burgeoning chorus of populist lament

Kehinde Andrews is not a serious reviewer

Publishing professionals often speak in code, but our man on the inside is a cryptographer

Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is

From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks

The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque

Classics resurrected and new bodies laid to rest