Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey Meyers is the author of James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist. His Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath will be published in July, both by Louisiana State University Press.
Anatomy of a British screen classic
The influential gold standard for perfect script and directing
Blood, squalor, and a taste of things to come
Japan’s brutal invasion of China witnessed by four very different literary adventurers
The odd couple
Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene may have been unlike as possible, but they remained the closest of friends for four decades
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
A culture of death
Street gangs and online provocation are fuelling a morbid subculture in British life
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Today Havering, tomorrow Westminster
The local elections exposed a political class united mainly by its inability to feel embarrassment
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
From an entitlement state to an investment state
How to achieve a pro-social and pro-market economy
The vague vision of Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer was competent but directionless on foreign policy
Questionably loyal opposition
A “rainbow coalition” between Conservatives and the Greens raises questions about the state of the Tories
