Books
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
The story of a lifetime
Whole life novels lay bare the randomness and haphazardness of life
Self’s the man
Will Self can be absurd and obnoxious — but also highly entertaining and insightful
Murders for March
Stirring dull roots with spring blood
Can liberalism recover?
A new book charts a different course for a dispositional liberalism
Revolutionary faith
Murder in the Rue Marat: A Case of Art in Revolution
Nostalgic fantasies of the British Raj
Shattered Lands: Five
Partitions and the Making of Modern
Asia by Sam Dalrymple; e Indian
Caliphate: Exiled Ottomans and the
Billionaire Prince by Imran Mulla
La bella figura
On Italian styling
Publishing skewered — in 1939
Anthony Powells’s pre-war novel is still the more reliable guide to the book business
The republican “we”
The fascinating history of the American experiment by a pair of prominent historians and brilliant storytellers
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The rise and fall of Star Trek liberalism
We should celebrate real-world achievement rather than identitarian fantasy
Why we love pubs
Politicians are squeezing pubs out of existence without understanding why they matter
I’m worried about Andy Burnham
If Burnham does to Britain what he has done to Manchester, we are in big trouble
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
A revolutionary king
The monarch’s vision of “harmony” will have lasting impact
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears