I attended a workshop in Fulda, a city right in the middle of Germany. To medievalists, it is best known as the resting place ...

There has been a fair bit of controversy around the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, particularly over issues of ...

There is a Victorian heft about Charles Taylor as a thinker – not just because his books are on a monumental scale that reminds you of someone like T. H. Green or Bernard Bosanquet, but also because, ...

A generation ago, Laurence Rees’s pathbreaking television series The Nazis: A warning from history changed public perceptions of the Nazi dictatorship. The image of an efficient political monolith in ...

Where do writers get their ideas from? In the case of David Cornwell, the writer also known as John le Carré, the answer might be Enemy Combatant: The terrifying true story of a Briton in Guantánamo ...

The travellers in this collection of essays are mostly British (Polish count Michał Jan Borch is the one exception) and their travels confined to Europe, apart from those of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ...

that seem to stretch all sense of reason: ...

My walk to work in Washington DC takes me past the Canadian Embassy, on Pennsylvania Avenue, just opposite the East Building of the National Gallery, where my current office is. It’s a strange ...

Guess who’s back? “He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the poor; to terrify the timorous ...

Towards the end of this brief, eclectic book, James C. Scott quotes disapprovingly the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky’s ...