Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry

How Coleridge plays with your mind in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

Coleridge’s masterpiece, about a man obsessed with retelling his story, has transfixed readers for over two centuries

Lucasta Miller

How the quarrelsome ‘Jena set’ paved the way for Hitler

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf reviewed

Frances Wilson

Ghislaine Maxwell and me

The last time I ran into Ghislaine was at a Sotheby’s preview. She was as friendly and engaging as ever

Nicholas Coleridge

Hidin’ Biden’s basement convention

The former VP oscillates between alarming porousness and inexplicable hostility

Roger Kimball

Books

Where would any writer be without a room of their own?

Lives of Houses reviewed

Lara Feigel