Book reviewed in this issue

Prodigy, poet, pastor
Rowan’s Rule: the biography of the archbishop
Rupert Shortt
Reviewed by Anthony Howard

Previous weeks reviews

Looking for the right side
The Sinister Side: how left-right symbolism shaped Western art
James Hall
Reviewed by John McEwen

Life as triumph over pessimism
Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy
William Oddie
Reviewed by Christopher Howse

Ruthlessly driven to care
Florence Nightingale: the woman and her legend
Mark Bostridge
Reviewed by Anthony Daniels

The deathly rationalism of evil
Dostoevsky: language, faith and fiction
Rowan Williams
Reviewed by Terry Eagleton

Henry the brilliant young king
Henry VIII
Lucy Wooding
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright

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