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David Womersley

Lockdown reading
Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year resonates with our new way of life
David Womersley

Emulation and evisceration
Noel Malcolm tells the story of western intellectual fascination with the Ottoman empire from the fall of Constantinople in 1453
David Womersley

Rabelais and the likely lads
A posthumous collection of poems by Geoffrey Hill embodies a controversial but impassioned idea of what poetry is and does
David Womersley

Irreverent reboot of well woke Will
Is Shakespeare 'accessible'? The truth is that Shakespeare’s plays combine an unusual accessibility of human situation with an unusual difficulty of language
David Womersley

Sam-I-Am’s Final Act
The last volume of his collected letters reveals Samuel Beckett at his most Beckettian
David Womersley

Was There An Irish Enlightenment?
What is "enlightenment", and did one happen in 18th-century Ireland?
David Womersley

The Prime And Vigour Of His Life
The final volume of Burke's writings proves we are living in a golden age of Burke scholarship
David Womersley

The Fine Art Of Editing Reveals The Real Eliot
The new edition of Eliot's elusive poems surprises, delights and informs
David Womersley

Hume’s ‘Treatise’ And The Problem Of Early Success
A new biography sheds light on the afterlife of Hume's writings
David Womersley

Reflections On Bourke’s Burke
A careful and learned account which will be required reading for future historians of Burke
David Womersley

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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