Gladstone · October 2026
‘Patria Oppressa!’
Gladstone, the theater, Homer, and a ‘complete revolution’ of opinion.
October 31, 2026
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Disraeli · September 2026
‘Faith fades and duty dies’
At a transitional moment for Victorian faith, Disraeli wrote two religious novels. In them, he defended what he privately viewed as a lost cause.
September 29, 2026
Disraeli · August 2026
British television show “Number 10” got personal with Disraeli and Gladstone
In a way that American TV rarely does, this 1983 series plumbed the psychological depths of statesmen as character studies
August 23, 2026
Disraeli · July 2026
Review: The Disraeli myth is consequential but endangered, a new book shows
The prime minister managed to write the single most influential novel in British political history. So why do so few remember him?
July 12, 2026
Wilson · June 2026
Woodrow Wilson, Ezra Pound and an homage to James Joyce’s Ulysses
Ezra Pound ruminated on the relationship between literary writing and political writing. Having a Joyce sooner could have spared us a Wilson, he said.
June 17, 2026
Wilson · June 2026
Review: Angel Down, To the Lighthouse and the communicative difficulties of World War I
These two Great War stories are very different, but they share a harrowing interiority.
June 7, 2026