Book Review
Jane’s profound piety
Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer
A path open to us all
Daniel Johnson reviews Wagner’s Parsifal, by Roger Scruton
“I am a total act” (but a second act?)
John Bowers reviews A Very Stable Genius, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
Criminal insanity
Nigel Biggar reviews Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, by John Lloyd
Mass-goer who glorified mass production
Christopher Bray reviews Warhol by Blake Gopnik
Unpacking the shoeboxes of history
Robert Hutton reviews House of Glass by Hadley Freeman and Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell
The big state heir to Blair
James Kirkup reviews Remaking One Nation by Nick Timothy
Tarnished golden land
Graham Stewart reviews The Hidden History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
It’s good to talk
Louise Perry reviews How to Have Impossible Conversations by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
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Saint Nicola
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A revolutionary king
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Europe should defend itself
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North Korea’s rogue state development
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The thin blue line must be thicker
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
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Graphics, games and occult entities
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The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
The Symphony’s Indian summer
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