Book Review
Knocking at the door of the Booker Prize
From an old-fashioned tale to a new-fashioned one, with a dash of dystopia
The North Riding, rediscovered
A welcome addition to Yorkshire volumes
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
J’accuse: the case that never closes
France was putting itself on trial, for its actions during the war
When young men headed East
The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves
A civilised discussion
If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about
Bringing the Bacchae to the bush
Chula finds a cultural confidence in Malawi that is lacking in the contemporary West
Anatomy of a medical scandal
How not thinking can infect a workplace, community or entire culture
The country that went to the wall
From its birth after 1945, to its death after 1990
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt