Non-Fiction
Crooked compendium
Ms Lees offers a new take on the template, but she is walking a well-trodden path
Higher education, lower standards
Why are our universities in decline?
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Budgets are overrated
Taxation and spending make little difference while Britain is unable to build
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
Essential all-embracing warmth
Gidon Kremer: Songs of Fate (ECM)
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
A wealth of Irish architecture
Editorial errors do not spoil a fine work of Irish architectural history
