Books

i.m. AMSTRAD

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Dear Lord Sugar, it’s been a sad week. A kind of bereavement, really. Today, a council employee in a yellow…

Spring

25 April 2015 9:00 am

The sparrows banter in the bushes that crowd the walls of the World’s End alleyway as I walk to the…

Talisman

25 April 2015 9:00 am

She’s meant to be good with words, used to medicating others with a timely postcard — FABULOUS WOMAN YOU! Today…

‘The Great Duke after Lawrence’ by Michael Craig-Martin

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25 April 2015 9:00 am

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War and jealousy

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Le Hamel was the site of an extraordinary triumph of allied arms early on the morning of July 4, 1918.…

In the bunker

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Wars make myths; probably no-one understood that better than Charles Bean, Australia’s first true war writer and a person who…

In the bunker

25 April 2015 9:00 am

Wars make myths; probably no-one understood that better than Charles Bean, Australia’s first true war writer and a person who…

Talisman

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

She’s meant to be good with words, used to medicating others with a timely postcard — FABULOUS WOMAN YOU! Today…

i.m. AMSTRAD

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

Dear Lord Sugar, it’s been a sad week. A kind of bereavement, really. Today, a council employee in a yellow…

Spring

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

The sparrows banter in the bushes that crowd the walls of the World’s End alleyway as I walk to the…

Talisman

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

She’s meant to be good with words, used to medicating others with a timely postcard — FABULOUS WOMAN YOU! Today…

i.m. AMSTRAD

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

Dear Lord Sugar, it’s been a sad week. A kind of bereavement, really. Today, a council employee in a yellow…

Spring

23 April 2015 1:00 pm

The sparrows banter in the bushes that crowd the walls of the World’s End alleyway as I walk to the…

An Armenian orphan in 1915. Hundreds of thousands of Christian women and children who survived the genocide suffered forced conversion to Islam

At last: a calm, definitive account of the Armenian genocide

18 April 2015 9:00 am

The atrocities suffered by an estimated one million Armenians in 1915 have been largely ignored by historians and officially denied by the Turks. It’s a centenary we can’t afford to neglect, says Justin Marozzi

The miracle of modern flight, by a 747 pilot with a poet’s sensibility

18 April 2015 9:00 am

With Alpine wreckage still being sifted, this is either a very good or a very bad time to write about…

By Air

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Astonishing to think That not so long ago First the Brothers Wright Then Louis Blériot Initiated flight. And strapped into…

Superstar curators like Hans Ulrich Obrist tour the world making items desirable through their selection alone, while paranoically insisting that what they do is ‘work’. Study for Tate Modern Sign (Bill Burns, 2012)

Spoilt for choice: we are all curators now

18 April 2015 9:00 am

As words commonly used to write about the visual arts become increasingly useful to advertisers, ‘to curate’ is becoming the…

Murder on Grub Street

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Historical fiction is sometimes accused of being remote from modern concerns, a flight towards nostalgia and fantasy. It’s not an…

Between town and country

18 April 2015 9:00 am

‘I nauseate walking; ’tis a country diversion. I loathe the country and everything that relates to it… Ah l’étourdie! I…

Gyalo Thondup (right) pictured with the Dalai Lama on their arrival in India in 1959

From diplomacy to disillusion with the Dalai Lama’s big brother

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Can there ever have been another book in which one of the authors (Anne Thurston in this case) so effectively…

Latrines dating from the second century at Ostia Antica, outside Rome

How the Romans went about their business

18 April 2015 9:00 am

When Ovid was seeking ‘cures for love’, the most efficient remedy, he wrote, was for a young man to watch…

The theory wars have ended in stalemate

18 April 2015 9:00 am

State-of-criticism overviews and assessments almost always strike a bleak note —the critical mind naturally angles towards pessimism — so it…

Women go off the rails

18 April 2015 9:00 am

The Lost Child begins with a scene of 18th-century distress and dissolution down by the docks, as a woman —…

Plotinus and Michel de Montaigne are included in George Steiner’s broad survey. His argument that we should elevate the pursuit of disinterested knowledge over the making of money is a familar one since classical times

From Plotinus to Heidegger: a history of European thought in 48 pages

18 April 2015 9:00 am

T.S. Eliot liked to recall the time he was recognised by his London taxi driver. Surprised, he told the cabbie…

The mysterious pleasure of Magnus Mills

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Since his debut with the Booker-nominated The Restraint of Beasts in 1999, Magnus Mills has delighted and occasionally confounded his…