View from Oxford: a year in woke

The 1946 classic is a timely reminder that affection and loyalty can surface in the most difficult of circumstances

Part of the magic of Christmas is how it pulls you back towards your home—if not physically, then at least in spirit

Henry Jeffrey’s recommends a selection of port for Christmas 2020

Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for

Christopher Pincher enjoys a 2009 Margaux in a dining room steeped in historical scandal

A pared-back Christmas means we can at last bin the big bird, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer

I am a half-Jewish product of artificial trees, bagels, White Hart Lane, and of two people who knew little of theology but everything of God’s love

The great Christmas singles came from the broken remains of a country that had forgotten how to be itself