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Review: The Traveller by Andrea Wulf
The radical and damaged life of a remarkable 18th-century naturalist
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
It was a joy to write about this exhilarating new fantasy for Engelsberg Ideas
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Elizabeth I: Queen & Court
A compact but powerful new exhibition at the Philip Mould Gallery
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero by Heather O'Donoghue
An excellent introduction to the one of the most famously forbidding works in English literature – new out in paperback
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Auden by Peter Ackroyd
The shambling life of England's most commanding twentieth-century poet
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Self-Help From the Middle Ages by Peter Jones
My Spectator review of a new book exploring mental health in the medieval world
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Rock Art and its Legacy in Myth and Art by Christoph Baumer and Therese Weber
A breathtaking survey of the physical and metaphysical landscapes of our ancestors
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: On Pedantry by Arnoud S.Q. Visser
An delightful history of intellectual caricature and disparagement
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Holbein by Elizabeth Goldring
The definitive scholarly biography of a Renaissance master
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Mexico: A 500-Year History by Paul Gillingham
A masterful account of one of the world's most complex and storied nations
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: Dip My Brain in Joy by Yvonne Innes
New in paperback, a moving memoir of the much-loved satirist and songwriter Neil Innes by his still-grieving wife
 • Mathew Lyons
Review: The Boundless Deep by Richard Holmes
A profound exploration of nineteenth-century science and its psychological impact on the young Tennyson
 • Mathew Lyons
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