"What the Roman Empire is to European history, the Mongol Empire is to Asian history."

"If you were living in the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, or sixteenth century, you would not think Europe was the…"

"Even more so than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine there are major structural trends that are threatening to change the w…"

"Since the normal tendency is to simplify, to trivialize, to eliminate the unfamiliar word or construction, the rule i…"

"There is a tiny pause, right at the start of the film that caught at my heart, but I didn't think anyone else would n…"

"Of the many metaphors for biography, two make useful starting points. One — a disturbing image — is the autopsy, the …"

"When I was very young, I think I was aware that I was reading different kinds of books, which slightly took my teache…"

"Emotions about our lost houses and gardens have to do with growing old and acquiring guilt: we are always leaving our…"

"Talking with a younger generation of readers, I see how Shelley has become increasingly a European figure, a Dante am…"

"The had promulgated an essentially private, elitist, specialist form of knowledge. Its ' was Latin, and its common cu…"