In the Soviet Archives: Sheila Fitzpatrick on the totalitarian hypothesis and 'everyday Stalinism'

Conversations in Philosophy: Nietzsche's 'Schopenhauer as Educator'

Colm Tóibín on J.D. Vance and Pope Francis

Greenland, Trump and the Danish documentary

Novel Approaches: 'North and South’ by Elizabeth Gaskell

Philip Larkin's fear of death

Fiction and the Fantastic: Franz Kafka's Stories

Conversations in Philosophy: 'My Station and Its Duties' by F.H. Bradley

Novel Approaches: 'Vanity Fair' by William Makepeace Thackeray

Love and Death: Elegies for Poets by Berryman, Lowell and Bishop

Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll

Conversations in Philosophy: John Stuart Mill's ‘Autobiography’

Novel Approaches: ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë

Love and Death: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray

Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino

Conversations in Philosophy: 'Circles' and other essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Novel Approaches: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock

Anne Carson: Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind

Love and Death: 'On My First Son' by Ben Jonson

Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’

Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Essence of Christianity' by Ludwig Feuerbach (and George Eliot)

Novel Approaches: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen

Love and Death: Milton's 'Lycidas'

Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’

Conversations in Philosophy: 'Fear and Trembling' by Søren Kierkegaard

Among the Ancients II: Marcus Aurelius

Political Poems: ‘Little Gidding’ by T.S. Eliot

Medieval LOLs: Gwerful Mechain’s ‘Ode to the Vagina’

Human Conditions: ‘Sister Outsider’ by Audre Lorde

On Satire: 'A Far Cry from Kensington' by Muriel Spark