Dance to the music of time: The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
An ambitious and extraordinary ninth novel that is haunted by “a familiar piece of music, the old-fashioned sound an orchestra…
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Loneliness of the long-distance jihadi: Morten Storm’s double life inside al-Qaeda
Storm, despite being a spy at the forefront of western intelligence efforts, was primarily driven by a desperate need to…
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Guillaume Apollinaire to Sarojini Naidu: the war poets you don’t study at school
Despite the “cosmopolitan sympathies” of the poets, memorial events in the UK today are dominated by British writers. But there…
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St Paul, Caravaggio and the agonised Catholicism of Pasolini
San Paolo, published posthumously in 1977 and presented here for the first time in English as St Paul, is Pasolini’s screenplay for…
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Opening the hurt locker: three new books on Iraq
There are many echoes of the literary lineage to which these books must belong. Owen’s old lie is in all…
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Mary Beard: humour in ancient Rome was a matter of life and death
It has always been bad for your public image to laugh in the wrong way or to crack jokes about…
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It’s time to end divisive rhetoric on sex and gender and create a trans-inclusive feminism
Sheila Jeffreys’s new book, Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, is a divisive and poorly-researched work.…
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Talking about women’s lack of confidence may be counterproductive
A new book by newscasters Katty Kay and Clare Shipman argues women’s timidity is holding them back at work – but does…
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