Books
Why art-house cinema can’t escape the Bible
In a secular age, art films are haunted by Christianity, argues Sebastian Cody
An elusive painting, even after 500 pages
This exhaustive study of a single artwork is gloriously eccentric
A masterly account of Ireland’s descent into civil war
Michael Duggan on Shakespeare and gunfights on the streets of Dublin
When Native Americans backed the Jacobite cause
James Baresel on an unlikely last stand for the exiled Stuart dynasty
Is playing sport really a spiritual practice?
A controversial biologist thinks so, says Michael White. But I’m not convinced
Diderot’s self-centred rebellion
Patrick West on the ‘utter scoundrel’ of the Enlightenment
When artists led the Church out of crisis
Francis Phillips on the beauty of the Counter-Reformation
Private education is unfair, but is there anything we can do about it?
Parents will always turn to St Custard’s, says Harry Mount
