Book Review
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
The cult of the father
A memoir of a family pulled apart by the cult of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
This history of sport fails to bowl over
An inadequate night watchmen of the genre
Silver spoons and sob stories
What makes an heiress?
Touchy-feely and not that new really
We’re more than our emotions
Empire of the Imagination
Historical metafiction
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Time for change?
A new book might overstate the durability of Trumpian politics
Storycraft is soulcraft
A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and heroism after disenchantment
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility
The problem with prohibiting political dishonesty
It will be used to stifle freedom and not just to curb mistruths
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The Islamopopulist march continues
Overshadowed by the Reform and Green surges, the Muslim vote continues a long march through the corridors of power
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Final Analysis
The real measure of a degree