Book Review
Dark obsessions of the Demon Dog
Love Me Fierce in Danger reads as a book for fans, inured to the World of Ellroy
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
Murders for March
A sinister start to the spring
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Empire by way of Europe
A new book places the quest to keep Algeria French squarely at the centre of European integration
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
A window into the medieval mind
Heaven on Earth captures the extraordinary efflorescence of Gothic architecture in Europe
The man who tamed the Russian bear
Statesmen confronted a stupefying cacophony of crises in the 1980s
How to avoid the Third World War
Tucker marries an English School insight with the thought of two giants of philosophy
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
A real pea souper
Rivers of filth bear our merry band to the grotesque wonders of Dickensian London
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Can criminals be judges?
Freemasons, extremists, even members of the Garrick Club can be appointed to the bench
How Singapore gets things done
Singapore’s enlightened authoritarianism offers lessons about effective governance
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
