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Some years ago, my wife and I were in Jerusalem when we decided to visit the Hasidic neighbourhood of Mea Shearim. During my late teens, I had spent two years studying in a yeshiva just outside ...

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Ever since 1940, the mere silhouette of an elliptical winged Supermarine Spitfire has been enough to summon up potent symbolism of Britain standing alone. In the deep night of a very different battle, ...

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Lauren Groff’s new collection of short stories, Florida, explores the contra­dictions of a maddening and seductive state. This is not the slick Florida of Miami but a land of boiled peanuts, “Spanish ...

Matthew Arnold published New Poems – in which “Dover Beach” makes its first appearance – 150 years ago. It was his last substantial collection of verse, his farewell to the art.

Oriana Fallaci, who died in 2006 at the age of seventy-seven, was for a while during the 1970s and 80s the most famous – and feared – interviewer in the world, courted and criticized in equal measure.

As the Cold War came to an end, political scientists began to debate what the new paradigm in global conflict might look like. Perhaps the most notorious theory was proposed by Samuel Huntington in ...

Sir, – Rhodri Lewis poses the question (Commentary, September 2), how old is Hamlet? To this might be added a speculation about the age of one of the play’s minor characters. Osric, it will be ...