‘War: An Enquiry’ by A. C. Grayling – an extract
For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. In War:…
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‘The Gift of the Gab’ by David Crystal – What makes a good election speech?
With the snap general election announced in Britain, the French election currently in progress, and the extensive coverage of the…
Praetorian by Guy de la Bédoyère – an extract
In his latest work, Praetorian: The Rise and Fall of Rome’s Imperial Bodyguard, Guy de la Bédoyère traces the…
Depression Era Painting and Its Resonance: America After the Fall – an extract
As the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition America After the Fall arrives at the Royal Academy of Arts,…
Psychology, Art, and Antifascism by Louis Rose – An Extract
Psychology, Art, and Antifascism, by Louis Rose, explores the work of the leading Viennese psychoanalyst Ernst Kris and the…
Play All: 4 TV Shows to Bingewatch this Winter
‘Everyone who has written television criticism since the 1970s … has done so in the long shadow of Clive James’…
In Celebration of Trees: A Tree Story by Fiona Stafford
For centuries, trees have served humankind in countless useful ways; but our relationship with these silent companions has…
A Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway – A Video & Extract
To mark the release of the latest addition to the Little Histories series A Little History of Religion,…
The Last Lover by Can Xue – An Extract
Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction In her first UK appearance, Chinese novelist and…
The Growth of Presidential Power – by Benjamin Ginsberg
From Presidential Government by Benjamin Ginsberg — For most of the nineteenth century, the presidency was a weak institution. In…
Medieval Europe: An Extract from Chris Wickham
‘This is tremendously good. Chris Wickham has an outstandingly keen and understanding eye for the diversities of life…
After Caravaggio: An Extract
‘Valentin is today widely recognised as a painter of impressive achievement … one of the key figures in…
The Euro as a Unifier? An Extract from ‘Europe Isn’t Working’
‘The euro’s architects were building on shaky ground, to say the least’ British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson…
The Narrow Edge: Bay of Plenty
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey follows the extraordinary migration of red knots…
In Praise of Forgetting: The Easter Rising
April 2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, when a group of Irish nationalists staged a rebellion…