Articles
Essays, reviews, and commentary on literature, history, politics, and ideas.
The Past is a Place
Stories from the North about trying to stay ahead of the past
History or Herstory?
A dazzlingly adventurous fusion of fiction and memoir from Belfast
Death Attracts Us
A compassionate portrayal of the professionals of the dying trade
Mad About Poetry
Translating the poem, and the reader into the world of the poem
Homo Oblivious
Words and stories to defend the truth against Russian lies and propaganda
Strength, not Power
Combating oppression and injustice with clarity rather than anger
Larkin at 100
The elusive depth that lies behind the all-too-explicit ordinariness
Pass the Parcel
Ways in which knowledge was disseminated in early modern Europe
Göring’s Man
The postwar networks of the Nazi art plunderers and their facilitators
Russian Myths
Vasily Grossman and the narrative of the Great Patriotic War
Cold War Culture
Orwell, Koestler and the democratic left’s crusade against Stalinism
Anyone for Tennis?
An engaging and self-deprecating meditation on getting on