Books
Big questions, muddled answers
Human Frontiers is an entertaining, zippy read but it feels one layer down from its ostensible subject: big ideas
The rise and fall of the China Question
Balance China realistically: let her overstretch and bleed
Classical architecture’s counter-attack
Reed’s great book exposes the ugliness and illiteracy of Modernism
Fairgrounds, Franco, and the future of Spain
An author challenges her nation’s collective and individual self-deceptions
When in Romania…
This book will be valuable as much for Eastern Europe specialists as for the general reader
Faith at war
It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet
Chips, with everything
Mr Heffer has produced a monumental second volume on Henry ‘Chips’ Channon to match his first
The coronavirus variations
Here are three of our most praised writers with new offerings written during one or more lockdowns and that also take in the pandemic in their subject matter
Pro-imperial truths of the old world
This magnificent one volume history details the tumultuous days of the Indian army in the jungles of Burma
Bring back the panjandrums
We need heavyweights to separate good from bad
