First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from an author who was given a year to live in 1959 but did not die until 34 years...
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All that glisters...
Money
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The Moor's perpetual sigh
Enigmas and Arrivals - Extravagant Strangers
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Speaking Volumes: Gerd Buchdahl's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science
On Gerd Buchdahl's Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science. When I left Oxford in 1979 and made the short trip east to Cambridge I carried with me a distinctive philosophical baggage: skills in...
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Making the Orient scrutable
Oriental Enlightenment
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Academic plenty in an era of want
Consumption in the Age of Affluence - Tough Choices - Population and Food
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A light rein on the strange land
Strange Country
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Feeling the void within
Writing the Irish Famine
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Take a ticket to central status
Conductors of Chaos
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They came from far away
Changing Differences
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Art's tenebrous twin
A Short History of the Shadow
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Elevation to status symbol
Rise of the New York Skyscraper 1865-1913
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A frenzy of white torsos in a Catholic excess
Discovering the Italian Baroque
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The bellyaches of an architect
Iconography and Electronics
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In a revolting state
An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England - Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship - The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr