Harrumphing and hot air
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s polemic against coronavirus lockdowns is “a stale little bonbon”
Is Saul Bellow Martin Amis’s true father?
Reviews of Martin Amis’s new book prove that the best questions are the ones that no one asks
Two men and a Boris
Three is the magic number. Or six. We don’t know what the magic number is
Wherefore art thou, America?
The United States’s travel ban makes us all poorer
When you pile tragedy too high, you sell it too cheap
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery (until 31 October)
Rats desert a thriving ship
The space for criticism to exist grows smaller and the archways that sustained its presence crumble away, laments Sarah Ditum
The Long Hours: remembering David Oluwale
How one man’s English journey, begun in hope, turned into a nightmare
Could there be a dark end to America’s constitutional crisis?
Coup talk, whether or not it is admitted as such, is plainly in the air at both ends of the spectrum
The great Rugby School library sale
As Rugby School prepares to auction off some of its most prized literary possessions, one must wonder what Dr Arnold would have to say
Open to review?
The Faulks panel may prove to be a convenient fig leaf to allow government to override the rule of law
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon