Two of the founding spirits of humanitarian aid, Henri Dunant and Florence Nightingale, held diametrically opposed views on how to help those caught up in wars. For Dunant, all assistance should be ...

Degrees of Disgrace - The History and Pre-History of Hertford College, Oxford: Survival and Renewals by Christopher Tyerman ...

Sense & Sensibility - Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists by ...

The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.) ...

A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

Concern about where the rubbish of the rich ends up is not new. In 1960 Vance Packard wrote The Waste Makers, and two years later Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring drew attention to the exploding use of ...

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As Kimber points out, however, Mansfield was a champion dissembler. And her life was the stuff of stories. Born into a prosperous New Zealand family, she was a self-styled bohemian who sought ...

WHEN SOLZHENITSYN WROTE his great three-volume classic, The Gulag Archipelago, it had a huge impact, particularly in France. There, since the Second World war, a great part of the reading classes had ...

‘Do as I say, not as I do’ applies to philosophy as much as any other discipline. The search for the Good Life (what the Ancient Greeks termed eudaimonia) does not presuppose a good life, or a ...

There he is on the cover, clever and tousled; there he is on the back cover, too, a little less scruffy this time, in suit and open-necked shirt. Then the author photograph, suit and tie to the fore, ...

Blake Gopnik’s life of Andy Warhol is less the chronicle of an advance towards death than a protracted postmortem. Gopnik begins halfway through, at what must have seemed to Warhol like the end. In ...