The mysticism and pragmatism of Victorian philosopher-psychologist William James

Thomas Piketty is haunted by the failures of social democracy, but his own ideas for fixing society are far from novel

Fans of Clive James cherished his poetry as much as his other accomplishments. This is an excerpt from Ian Shircore’s new biography, “So Brightly at the Last”, the first full-length study of the man and his muse

Radiant description, linguistic precision and super-saturated dreamscapes in new collections by Matthew Francis and Stephen Sexton

Spookdom needs better scrutiny

'It was only at the beginning of the 20th century that anthropology developed from a hotchpotch of uncoordinated, pseudo-scientific speculations into a set of separate but interlinked disciplines'

US foreign policy has its flaws. But it is less odd than it looks

Irving Berlin's life was packed with incident

"Defenders of Leonard Woolf’s wife, Virginia, have turned her into a heroine, even a victim, and diminished his formidable achievements"

What does it mean to be an active bilingual?