Books

Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist

A catholic sift through humankind’s advent and our eventual, formative babbling and beyond.

Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”

Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?

Being memorable and sticky guarantees a novel a long and healthy life

A body that collects authors’ revenues is going off-book and asking about their gender

It is time for Paris and Rome to rethink sovereignty and their relationship with the EU

Modernism has failed and it is time to return to diligent study of the best of traditional architecture

Beneath the excitable phrases and endless underlining, Victoria’s correspondence doggedly promoted a coherent policy

Socialists, communists and liberals were united by a conviction that free trade could, and would, promote democracy and justice