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Quality not quantity
Those who call Kubrick the greatest director in the history of cinema really do have a point
Brian Viner

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

Minds of their own
Contagious curiosity about the way consciousness works
Nigel Warburton

Testing positivism
"The Murder of Professor Schlick" brilliantly illuminates an ambitious movement in philosophy
Clare Clark

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

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

Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn

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

Revisiting Nazi myths
Products of paranoid imaginations, less closely linked than might appear
Guy Walters

The invention of Stoppard
“It appears to have been a sense that it was all becoming too easy that prompted Tom Stoppard to resolve, on his 23rd birthday, to give up journalism and write a play”
Standpoint Magazine

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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