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The son-in-law also rises

October 14, 2021

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43by Chips Channonedited by Simon Heffer Hutchinson, £35, 1,120 pages ________ This doorstop of a book is the second of Henry Channon’s long and much-anticipated uncensored diaries, and it’s well worth the wait. For many decades his heirs withheld permission of publication, fearing Channon’s more stinging comments on

Film review: Vigilante cowboys ride into horror territory

February 18, 2016

Bone Tomahawk, starring Kurt Russell, is a genre-bending Western that doesn't deserve to be overlooked

Book review: The African woman who took on Rome

November 12, 2015

A translation of 'the first true biography of an African woman' challenges lazy assumptions about the continent's culture

Book review: Luther – the tender side of a ferocious polemicist

October 29, 2015

Scott Hendrix has written a scholarly but vivid portrait of a man living through a spiritual crisis

Art review: The unsettling visions of a New York ad man

May 07, 2015

A retrospective of Mac Conner's illustrations showcases his visionary talent

Spiritual books: The divine destiny of St Joan of Arc

March 26, 2015

A new biography makes it clear that St Joan was not a hysteric or mentally unbalanced

Film round-up: Sean Penn’s blood-splattered voyage of discovery

March 26, 2015

Amid The Gunman's carnage and moral ambivalence, Mark Rylance steals the show

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