Disraeli · June 2025
Review: Pelham, a novel by Disraeli’s friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton
This 1828 novel was a touchstone in defining the dandy. As such it is instructive as to who the young Disraeli was.
June 30, 2025
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Disraeli · May 2025
Review: The Voyage of Captain Popanilla, a novella by Benjamin Disraeli
This entertaining political tract in fictional form was perhaps inspired by the Panic of 1825 and the fake nation of Poyais.
May 12, 2025
Gladstone · April 2025
Review: Vivian Grey, a novel by Benjamin Disraeli
Two hundred years later, Disraeli’s first novel remains audacious, ridiculous, revealing.
April 25, 2025
Disraeli · March 2025
Review: Endymion, a novel by Benjamin Disraeli
Why was the hero of the conservative prime minister’s last complete novel on the opposite side of the political spectrum?
March 25, 2025
Gladstone · March 2025
Review: On Lothair and Benjamin Disraeli’s Religious Psychology
The religious quandary at the heart of Disraeli’s late novel and what the Derby diaries reveal about his real beliefs.
March 22, 2025
Disraeli · March 2025
Review: Tancred, a novel by Benjamin Disraeli
For 150 years, reception was negative about this novel. Then, starting 20 years ago, something changed.
March 18, 2025