Book Review

Ultimately pro-natalist in tone, this book approaches millennial worries about parenthood with curiosity and kindness

Interest in language was once the domain of antiquarians and clergymen

The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat

It is all too easy to forget the astonishing cultural wealth that lies close to hand in our medieval parish churches

Peterson spends great time and care examining a cornucopia of Biblical stories

Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now

Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement

A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud

Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation

Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose