In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism.

In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes: “Socrates compares writing down one’s ideas to planting seeds in barren soil from which nothing ...

On 10 April 1925, the day The Great Gatsby was published, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Max Perkins, his editor, asking that ...

In a close-up portrait of an intolerably contemptuous woman, the veteran director returns to his miserabilist comic mode.