Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
Russell Kirk was an exceptional kind of conservative intellectual, talented and blessed with a practical bent, who revealed the poetic sensibility that inspired some of America's g..
The fate of Britain's peculiar democracy has often turned on obscure by-elections, where a local grievance could herald an earthquake in the nation's affairs.
A new collection of essays revisits the life of a séance-holding Presbyterian bachelor whom historians routinely rank as Canada's greatest prime minister, yet one largely ignored b..
With no first-person narratives surviving, Emma Southon draws skilfully on epigraphy to recover the lives of enslaved Romans. But her thin treatment of Roman comedy leaves a valuab..
Spufford's new novel conjures a wartime London at once enchanting and terrifying, alive with metamorphic possibility.
For half a century, Edwin and Willa Muir's translations were how the Anglophone world read Kafka. A prize-winning study of his translators barely registers their contribution.
Velázquez and El Greco loom over Spain's Golden Age, but an exhibition in Paris gives the era's overlooked artists their due.
Britain's wartime leader was also a gifted amateur painter, whose oeuvre, close in style to the English impressionists, offers a striking perspective on his extraordinary life.
The Seven Deadly Sins fuelled a medieval appetite for self-improvement just as strong as our own.
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