The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper was both vigorously old school and unremittingly sarcastic.

The author A. G. Mojtabai shows how nearly impossible it is to satisfy the longing for holiness.

Does H. G. Wells still hold any interest for us? David Lodge thinks so.

Barry Hannahs posthumous anthology comes garlanded with praise.

A fable from Philip Roth

With its wild wordplay and serious ideas, Salman Rushie's latest work of fantasy is hardly tween-lit.

The collected confabulations of Gunter Grass and his children

A history of anti-Semitism in England

Dietrich Bonhoeffer had a way of saying things that immediately cleared the air.

'Ideas That Matter' scans a vast spectrum of problems and issues with lively and opinionated prose.