08/08/2022 - 1:01am

Can depression be cured? Robert Burton: ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’

Ann Manov

02.08

The timeless beauty of Novalis Sometimes ignorance is bliss

Salley Vickers

28.07

The fate of Europe lies in the steppes Warwick Ball: ‘The Eurasian Steppe’

Aris Roussinos

30.08

Where lockdown is a fairytale In Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, hostages are happy

Suzannah Lipscomb

23.08

Activists aren’t what they used to be Today's pious protestors could learn a lot from Dorothy Day

Niamh Mulvey

20.08

Roger Scruton is the heretic we need The secret radical had no time for lying fools

Douglas Murray

19.08

The Leopard’s lessons in love Romance, in Lampedusa's masterpiece, will leave you wanting more

Horatio Clare

16.08

How America became a mad house A debauched Sixties novel might put you off booze

Christopher Caldwell

12.08

The Magic Mountain will consume you Has Twitter ruined Thomas Mann's classic?

Ben Judah

11.08

Covid isn’t the end An elegy to vanished kingdoms shows this is not how civilisations collapse

Niall Gooch

10.08

Teenagers need to have sex again A book about owls set the scene for my own awakening

Julie Burchill

09.08

Lessons in lockdown from a psychiatric ward A re-issued memoir from the sixties feels eerily familiar

Frances Wilson