Family Values
May 27, 2026Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
Believers and Infidels
May 27, 2026For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
May 27, 2026In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival
May 27, 2026Interest in Rosetta in Britain was part and parcel of a larger trend: the postwar blues...
Brontë in Brussels
May 27, 2026I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions:...
Tommy’s Honor by Kevin Cook
May 27, 2026Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level...
The Power of Art by Simon Schama
May 26, 2026For all of his own moral blemishes, Caravaggio knew exactly how to please the princes of...
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
May 26, 2026This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
May 26, 2026Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch, is set in 1940s London, during and after the...
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...




