Portraits of six great leaders, from the pen of Henry Kissinger

Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?

Locked rooms and dark churchyards

A trio of 20th century novels each offer a different desideratum for the discerning lounger

We remain interested in Tocqueville because of the power of his thought, not his life story

Make the monarchy a spiritual vacuum, and it will soon be filled with nihilism

Evocation of a more hopeful culture lost is both the book’s strength and weakness

Creativity amid conflict

One senses that, in this volume of Picasso’s life, John Richardson is only doing the hands and faces

Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators