Reviews Archive

'Women with Firemasks', London, Lee Miller (1941). Credit: Lee Miller Archives

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Lee Miller’s life on both sides of the lens

Vogue model, photographer, Surrealist muse, war correspondent and gourmet chef – Lee Miller's life was one of constant reinvention.

Katie Tobin October 8, 2025

A scene from the film 'Appointment in Berlin' (1943), starring George Sanders.

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Tea and treachery in Hitler’s Berlin

In a Berlin apartment in 1943, aristocrats and intellectuals gathered for tea to vent their doubts about Hitler. But one guest was a spy, and their words would seal their fate.

Roger Moorhouse October 7, 2025

A wood engraving of a youthful Alfred Tennyson.

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Tennyson was young once

A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.

Mathew Lyons October 6, 2025

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Werner Herzog’s truth

All Werner Herzog's works are mysterious; they never quite resolve into a simple idea or conclusion. His latest book explains why.

Bryan Appleyard October 3, 2025

The US Coast Guard performs icebreaking operations in the Bering Sea.

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The fight for the Arctic’s future

The melting of polar sea-ice is opening up a new and uncertain sphere for geopolitical competition.

Caroline Eden October 1, 2025

Knights Templar Crusades: Battle of Al Mansurah, illuminated manuscript, circa 133

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The Assassins’ and Templars’ shared fate

Against a backdrop of shifting empires and fragile alliances, two brotherhoods — the Assassins and the Knights Templar — carved out reputations steeped in violence and myth.

Nicholas Morton September 30, 2025

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A voyage around Virgil’s world

By making the Aeneid accessible to the epic’s readers in English, Christopher Tanfield's companion to the text in translation is no less useful to students who are more deeply enga..

Armand D'Angour September 26, 2025