Books
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
A Radical Proposal: Book reviews should review books
Give us more judgement, more opinions and more criticism
Leading by tantrum
Jeremy Black reviews Hitler: Downfall 1939-45 by Volker Ullrich
The post-Christian identity crisis
Three books portray a West unconscious of its past and uncertain of its future
A vengeful pursuit of political power
Natascha Engel reviews Unspeakable by John Bercow
Who holds the power?
Literary reputations are made and broken by a self-appointed clique of bien pensant liberal intellectuals
Masterful tombstone for a tudor bruiser
Hannah Betts reviews The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
A puritan but not a fanatic
Simon Heffer reviews Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate by Paul Lay
The poet and the patrician
Stephen Parkinson reviews The Fire is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F Buckley Jr, and the debate over race in America, by Nicholas Buccola
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
Farewell to Larry Siedentop
The great political philosopher, Oxford don, and sage defender of Western liberalism
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Take a bow
This season’s must-have neckwear is a sartorial two-fingered salute to life
Religion without mercy
Progressivism has all the zeal of Christianity, but none of its emphasis on forgiveness
Tom Stoppard’s Hampstead drama
Best not try to memorise this deceptive Connect Four of relationships — just get into the flow
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
