History
Might-have-been books
Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.
Unusual eminent Victorian
Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot
Remember them more honestly
We should change the way we commemorate our war dead
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
The shadowy economics of fentanyl
One professor is investigating how the deadly drug trade works — and how it might be fought
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
J.K. Rowling and the very Freudian fandom
Many Harry Potter fans feel a strange compulsion to hate the thing they love
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
The EU’s war on Hungary
As news breaks of secret EU plans to cripple the Hungarian economy, who can still believe it respects national sovereignty?
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
