Book Review
Stability and sensibility
Art between the wars
The distinctiveness of human aggression
A review of The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution by Richard Wrangham
A Yiddish colossus
Isaac Bashevis Singer would never have submitted to today’s ideological edicts
A cautionary tale
The lot of the writer today is one of insecurity, wounded pride and dwindling returns
The “Popish brat of France” reassessed
Leanda de Lisle triumphs where her subject could not
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
Confusing populism with tyranny
Gideon Rachman fails to distinguish the strong from those who pretend to be
A sharp and shrewd look at Lawrence
A dialectical mind, Lawrence is modern in his resistance to labels
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
Nostalgia is what it used to be
Would getting Britons to close their storybook really solve Britain’s problems?
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Butterfield’s glorious vindication
Received opinion was wrong about William Butterfield’s powerful architecture
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Assisted dying and the risk of premature surrender
We should be very wary of the circumvention of true palliative care
