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For many, what would come to be known as Christianity was still a Jewish sect operating within the confines of the established Law (ie the teachings of the Torah). Yet Christianity was cosmopolitan ...

That episode is pivotal in Liaquat Ahamed’s panorama of the origins of an era of deflation, stagnation and unrest – the ‘first Great Depression’ – that afflicted much of the world for the rest of the ...

Reports from Cuba by J S Tennant ...

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In his introduction to Eminent Edwardians Dr Piers Brendan tells us his work 'follows Strachey's pattern and attempts to unlock an age by means of a few key figures' whose "eminence was global".' He ...

Better a good comedy with a bad title, wrote the 18th-century German critic Lessing, than the reverse. And this work indeed has an ingenious and apposite main title. Sadly, the content does not ...

At the First Soviet Writers' Congress held in Moscow in 1934, the Soviet short story writer Isaak Babel proclaimed himself the 'master of silence'. Like Olesha and Erdman, Babel could not bring ...

A whole section of the art of critical self-defence is devoted to the docketting and pigeonholing of 'difficult' writers: it saves one from the ghastly business of actually reading and forming an ...

F0r those teachers of English as a foreign language familiar with the grim text books which aim to present it through drill exercises in phonetics, intonation and stress-patterns, this recent ...

Rosenberry's concern is with technique and theme, not with interpretation as such. This modest aim will come as a welcome relief to those suffering from the excesses of the Melville industry. His ...