The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper was both vigorously old school and unremittingly sarcastic.
Peter Heinegg
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Elusive Sanctity
The author A. G. Mojtabai shows how nearly impossible it is to satisfy the longing for holiness.
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The Visible Man
Does H. G. Wells still hold any interest for us? David Lodge thinks so.
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Modern Mythmaking
With its wild wordplay and serious ideas, Salman Rushie’s latest work of fantasy is hardly tween-lit.
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Truth-Teller
Dietrich Bonhoeffer had a way of saying things that immediately cleared the air.
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A Philosophical Bazaar
'Ideas That Matter' scans a vast spectrum of problems and issues with lively and opinionated prose.
