War of Words - What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala ...

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art by Rhodri Lewis; Shakespeare is Hard, but So is Life by Fintan O’Toole ...

From Russia with Lucre - Gilbert & George and the Communists by James Birch ...

Are the Baltic Sea states, as former Estonian president Lennart Meri once put it, the factory of Europe’s future? Oliver ...

There was the sheer hatred felt by many Americans for an enemy they regarded as less than human – people have occasionally ...

Women’s Hour - Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...

Historians call it the Bauernkrieg or German Peasants’ War, but to people at the time it was simply the Aufruhr (‘the turmoil’). Through the second half of 1524 and into the summer of 1525, rebellion ...

It is timely, in these days of Extinction Rebellion and anti-aviation protests, to examine the philosophy of travel. Why do we go, what do we get out of it, and is the very act of boarding a plane ...

‘Anyone of no public eminence of whom the world in general has never heard (and I come into both these categories) is presumptuous in thinking he can write a book which people will want to read.’ Thus ...

Russia’s recent efforts to destabilise the Baltic states have increased enthusiasm for the EU in these places. With Euroscepticism growing in countries like France and Germany, @owenmatth wonders ...

It is common enough to review a book by a friend, but rare when that friend is not just the author of the book but also the publisher, and not just the publisher of the book but of the magazine in ...