CLASSICS
September 2015
Jochen Bleichen's biography of the Emperor is monumental but highly readable
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July/August 2015
‘Trigger warnings are not merely tools for censoring febrile material for the few, but a complaint about the dominance of Western thought'
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June 2015
"By all means, let the wicked fry in Hell—but why should they find themselves frying alongside innocent and virtuous pagans?"
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June 2015
The cento is a sophisticated and demanding poetic form — and best suited to schoolboyish ends
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