Ring Down the Curtain - The Critic by Anand Tucker (dir) ...

‘We bugged and burgled our way across London at the State’s behest, while pompous civil servants in Whitehall pretended to look the other way.’ @bricksilk on the Spycatcher affair. David Anderson - ...

There is something magnificent about the ambition of Iain McGilchrist’s book. It offers nothing less than an account of human nature and Western civilisation as outcomes of the competition between the ...

In the Nancy Mitford novels there is a character called the Bolter. She is the narrator’s mother who lives in Kenya and parks her daughter on an unmarried aunt. She is always falling for unsuitable ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...

His lisp cannot easily be transliterated. The letter ‘R’ starts somewhere at the back of his throat and stays there. Words containing the letter are, therefore, afflicted with a strange hiatus, an ...

Spinoza, according to Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, is ‘the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers’. As a natural consequence of his ethical supremacy, Russell adds, ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...