The debate over whether Oxford university's Hanseatic scholarships were paid for by Nazi profiteering continues. Two eminent academics put forward their cases

Ladies who lunch deplore looting, but when in Rome...

Review of The Appointment by Herta Müller; Perlmann's Silence by Pascal Mercier; and The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Review of Rome by Robert Hughes

 

Review of The Great Partnership: God, Science and the Search for Meaning by Jonathan Sacks

Book review of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller

Nikolaus Pevsner was the man who catalogued England. His project is well worth another read

Libya will not be another Iraq. The doom-mongers in the Western media would be wise to focus on Libya's massive business potential