Biography
Creativity and chaos
Writers with biographies to match their books
The fatal hubris of a ruthless fixer
Peter Stothard’s penetrating biography could not be more apposite in this age of political turmoil
Princeton’s friend of the Iranian people
Reza Aslan’s flawed account is better than nothing
New tunes from a hatful of old songs
We approach Dylan’s both peerless and wildly uneven catalogue only through the after-image of his dazzling prime
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
The Greek prince
Philip the foreigner and the press
The regal rise of le petit caporal
Napoleon believed his glorious destiny was to terminate the Revolution
A grand old Duke
The Duke of Kent’s life has been little-known — until now
A thoughtful old-fashioned rambler
George Orwell’s gardening prowess comes as a surprise
The boy who would be King of the World
Alex Rowson treats us to glimmering passages of life at Philip II’s court
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
William Warham
A champion of the English Church unfairly eclipsed by his great rivals Wolsey, Cranmer and Cromwell
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Don’t marry your cousin
And don’t knock culture wars — they can save lives
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
