Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Boris beware: Nigel’s making plans for you
Farage will soon return from his political grave to ensure Brexit gets done
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
The case for socialist healthcare in one country
If China and Covid can’t shake doctrinal globalism, can anything?
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
Can victims forgive?
The case of France’s George Floyd, Adama Traoré
September 2020: Letters to the Editor
The divisions between the ruling managerial class and the rest are a recipe for extremism
The wrong sort of difficult
Natascha Engel reviews Difficult Women, by Helen Lewis
Black Lives Matter are pushing division, not unity
BLM’s radical ideas, such as defunding the police, would only make the lives of black communities worse
The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
The author who is ‘ex-Black’
Louise Perry reviews ‘Self-Portrait in Black and White’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams