Feb 10, 2012
Euphoria has given way to impatience in the year since Mubarak’s fall, yet is it too early to lose faith in the Arab spring?
Feb 3, 2012
Britain will regret the current wave of public library closures but that does not mean its network must stay the same, writes Matthew Engel
Jan 27, 2012
John Lloyd reviews four books on Russia, and Putin’s grip on power, among them ‘The Strongman’ by Angus Roxburgh and ‘It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway’, by David Satter
Jan 20, 2012
Stephen Cave reviews works exploring this question including Alain de Botton’s ‘Religion for Atheists’ and Alex Rosenberg’s ‘The Atheist’s Guide to Reality’
Jan 13, 2012
The self-appointed guardians of standards in English may struggle to keep up but at least they care. Review by Michael Skapinker
Jan 6, 2012
Two books explore the extraordinary record of the African National Congress as it turns 100. Review by Alec Russell
Dec 23, 2011
Radical, romantic, mythmaker – as his bicentenary nears, Charles Dickens still presents many faces to biographers. By Henry Hitchings
Dec 16, 2011
Ed Crooks on how commercial success has propelled hip-hop’s superstars into the US business elite
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Jackie Wullschlager
Dec 2, 2011
Attempts to fix the artist’s place in history coincide with a Royal Academy exhibition of his work
Nov 18, 2011
Economists have rather more to learn from the natural sciences if they are to claim a realistic model of human behaviour