Books

Contagious curiosity about the way consciousness works

"The Murder of Professor Schlick" brilliantly illuminates an ambitious movement in philosophy

Laurence Rees tries his best to cut through much of the mythology that infuses our collective memory of Hitler and Stalin

Those who call Kubrick the greatest director in the history of cinema really do have a point

Barack Obama was a political superstar who overcame astronomical odds, but he was also the product of a ruthlessly professional operation

“There’s something enticing about a belief that great men are in command of history. It is easier, perhaps, to deal with that than to deal with the more alarming possibility that the

Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles

John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens

There is little about our current dilemmas that our parents and grandparents have not already confronted and survived

Products of paranoid imaginations, less closely linked than might appear