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Book of the day Witcraft by Jonathan Rée and The History of Philosophy by AC Grayling review – head to head philosophy

From Hamlet to Hume ... two histories of thought, one imaginative and stylish, one very much not

Published: 1 Jun 2019

Book of the day Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray review – is every atheist an inverted believer?

An impressively erudite work, ranging from St Augustine to Joseph Conrad, embraces an atheism that finds enough mystery in the material world

Published: 11 Apr 2018

Terry Eagleton: a lit crit of the party manifestos

‘For the Posh and Powerful, Not For Riff-Raff Like You’ … the critic deconstructs the party promises

Published: 26 May 2017

Be Like a Fox by Erica Benner review – was Machiavelli really not Machiavellian?

The Prince was meant ironically, and its author was really a nice guy, argues this compulsively readable study

Published: 15 Mar 2017

Book of the day The New Politics of Class review – has the working class been left behind?

Class divisions are as real as ever – it’s the politicians who have changed their priorities, as this illuminating book shows

Published: 19 Jan 2017

Book of the day The Happiness Industry by William Davies review – why capitalism has turned us into narcissists

Our age is characterised by tender self-obsession: what matters is not what you think or do but how you feel

Published: 3 Aug 2016

Book of the day The Name of God Is Mercy by Pope Francis; Francis by Jimmy Burns review – the world’s most powerful voice against neoliberalism?

The popular and charismatic pope has proved to be passionate about social justice, but the story of his rise to power is not straightforward

Published: 30 Mar 2016

The Dark Side of the Soul review – an insider’s guide to sin, by a priest

How did wickedness become so alluring? The Anglican author suggests that vice is not to be prohibited, but is ‘something with which we need to develop a constructive relationship’

Published: 17 Feb 2016

Elizabeth II by Douglas Hurd review – bootlicking obsequiousness

The Queen is revealed by the former home secretary to be without moral defect, possessed of penetrating insight and only an accidental tax dodger

Published: 30 Sep 2015

Which party’s election manifesto is the best written?

Terry Eagleton, literary theorist, scours the manifestos for any wit or originality among the bland promises

Published: 24 Apr 2015
Book of the week Freedom Regained by Julian Baggini review – the question of free will

Men and women aren’t sole authors of themselves, but neither are they slaves, as some theorists argue, to neural firings and inherited genes, writes Terry Eagleton

Published: 1 Apr 2015

Book of the week Terry Eagleton reviews Trouble in Paradise and Absolute Recoil by Slavoj Žižek

Like Socrates on steroids: Žižek is both breathtakingly perceptive and outrageously irresponsible. Is he just out to scandalise, asks Terry Eagleton

Published: 12 Nov 2014

King or queen for a day If I were king for a day I would execute eavesdroppers, morris dancers and Bruce Forsyth

Terry Eagleton: And citizens would be legally obliged to beat up anyone who blunders into them in the street while texting

Published: 10 Oct 2014

Published: 10 Oct 2014

Sackcloth and Ashes review – Ann Widdecombe on hedonism and self-denial

Terry Eagleton raises an eyebrow at reflections on Lent from 'one of the country's moralists-in-chief'

Published: 13 Mar 2014

Why an Ulster university common room is worth fighting for

Terry Eagleton: Students occupying Ulster University's common room are defending higher education against creeping corporatisation

Published: 11 Dec 2013

Published: 11 Dec 2013

Autobiography by Morrissey – review

This book is superb: Mozzer is so devastatingly articulate he could win the Booker, argues Terry Eagleton

Published: 13 Nov 2013

A book that changed me Colin Wilson's glumness entranced me as a budding teenage existentialist

Terry Eagleton: A book that changed me: The Outsider's theme of artistic alienation was perfect for someone trying and failing to grow a beard and get a girlfriend

Published: 4 Aug 2013

Published: 4 Aug 2013

The Frontman: Bono (In The Name of Power) by Harry Browne – review

Bono the philanthropist is nothing but a crony of bankers and neocons, argues Terry Eagleton

Published: 26 Jun 2013

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