Peter Hitchens’ new book details how the destruction of grammar schools has betrayed children from modest backgrounds

The importance of meaning

Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then

Would Hitler and Stalin have fought so hard over a city named Tsaritsyn?

Philip the foreigner and the press

One thing in Roth’s messy existence makes him worth our time: his writing

More male nurses may not be enough to fill an existential hole

Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution

A righteous dissection of Poundland post-structuralists

Gripping plots and dodgy prose for the autumn months