May 2020 Issue Michael Tanner Last Hurrah Wagner’s Parsifal: The Music of Redemption By Roger Scruton LR
July 2016 Issue Tim Blanning Composing His Thoughts The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s ‘Ring of the Nibelung’ By Roger Scruton LR
September 2015 Issue Gulliver Ralston On the Green Hill My Life with Wagner By Christian Thielemann (Translated by Anthea Bell) LR
July 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Wagner In Love Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde By Roger Scruton
December 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Nietszche Fetched His Silk Panties Wagner: The Last of the Titans By Joachim Köhler LR
August 2006 Issue Patrick O’Connor A Vision In A Dream Wagner and the Art of the Theatre By Patrick Carnegy The Ring: An Illustrated History of Wagner’s Ring at the Royal Opera House By John Snelson LR
October 2011 Issue Tim Blanning Clash of the Titans Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries By Peter Conrad LR
April 2010 Issue Rupert Christiansen Rhine Maiden Cosima Wagner: The First Lady of Bayreuth By Oliver Hilmes (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
April 2006 Issue Roger Scruton A Quest For Truth Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s Ring By Mark Berry LR
June 2005 Issue Simon Heffer Fan of the Fuhrer Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth By Brigitte Hamann LR
November 2013 Issue Michael Tanner Notes for Living Richard Wagner: A Life in Music By Martin Geck (Translated by Stewart Spencer) LR
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