Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II

From the end of the Empire to the dawn of a messy new millennium, Wilson charts the half century of the second Elizabethan era with sharp wit and sweeping opinions.

June 18: George Orwell's "As One Non-Combatant to Another" was published on this day in 1943. Orwell's poem arguing against pacifism quotes from Churchill's "finest hour" speech, delivered to Parliament and the nation on this day in…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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