Richard Holbrooke, the last of the action men
The remarkable career of the celebrity diplomat and hyperactive emblem of the Pax Americana.
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The best minds of their generation: the story of “the Club”
Dr Johnson and Boswell recruited the age’s most original thinkers and turned conversation into an art form.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s horrible history
The Tory MP’s celebration of the Victorian age is plodding, laborious, humourless and barely readable.
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Review: The People’s Flag and the Union Jack
In 1987, the conservative journalist Peregrine Worsthorne observed: “Much of the stability of this country depended on the Labour Party, which,…
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Cari Mora: a tense heist thriller from the author behind Hannibal Lecter
Thomas Harris’s latest novel is a welcome departure from his narrow and numbing obsession with Lecter.
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Brand Easton Ellis
The author of American Psycho is back on the publicity trail, courting controversy and selling his “vision”. But what – if anything…
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How Islam shaped the West
Early modern Europe and the “shame-praising” of the Muslim world.
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John Buchan’s clubland heroes
In The Thirty-Nine Steps and his other yarns – with their decent chaps in scrapes and men on the run – John Buchan…
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