4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (401+ words) Engelsberg Ideas The other great Sicilian novel Frederico De Roberto’s explosive portrait of a declining Sicilian dynasty deserves greater recognition. Federico De Roberto’s 1894 novel The Viceroys deserves to be as well known as Lampedusa’s The Leopard, which it undoubtedly influenced,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (218+ words) As death approached, the titan of the Scottish Enlightenment found solace in the company of close friends rather than in the hope of religious redemption. My Own Life concludes with Hume’s discovery of his final illness, which he appears to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1068+ words) Robert Bly and the cult of men’s inner work Engelsberg Ideas Robert Bly and the cult of men’s inner work Gurus of modern masculinity such as Steven Bartlett, owe a debt, conscious or not, to the eccentric poet Robert Bly....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1090+ words) Ian Thomson is a British journalist, biographer and critic. He is the author of an acclaimed life of Primo Levi, 'The Elements of a Life' (2002), which won the Royal Society of Literature's W.H.Heinemann Prize. Among his works of reportage are…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (846+ words) Derek Turner is the author of several novels and a cultural history, Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire (Hurst, 2022). He has also written for journals including the Spectator, Country Life, Unherd and the Guardian. He has just completed a book…...