Articles of Faith: The Story of British Intellectual Journalism

Neil Berry''sArticles of Faith is a selective study of British intellectual journals and their editors, among them the pioneering Edinburgh Review as edited by Francis Jeffrey at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New Statesman as edited by Kingsley Martin during the middle of the twentieth century, and the London Review of Books as edited by Karl Miller in the 1980s.

The book argues that the ''higher journalism'' did much to prepare the way for the civic—minded Britain that emerg...