Come autumn, competing literary establishments parade their best

Publishers get rid of talented editors whose worn faces don’t fit their youth-focused world

Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court

There’s a gap in the market for Andrew Jefford’s next great book

How far can the Left’s project succeed without its totemic leader?

Generations of general staff put their faith in the knockout blow

Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians

Not everything has to be about gender

Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?

Humane planning has again succumbed to wholesale obliteration