Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
A double American Awakening
Katrina Gulliver delves into two new publications entitled ‘American Awakening’, and discovers that one is an exhortation, the other an ironic description of the current process of politics and society
Pick of the bunch
Garden flowers are for posies
Who runs Cambridge?
How truth-seeking dons are organised and fighting back against social justice academics
He being dead yet speaketh
Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint
Training nature
Hephzibah Anderson reveals how RHS Bridgewater illustrates some of the tensions inherent in our newfound appreciation of what remains a highly curated kind of nature
Arafat and me
David Smith on the time he spent with Yasir Arafat, the former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization
Rogue male
Scoundrel, liar, cheat and toady, George MacDonald Fraser’s Flashman is a creation of genius and a bracing antidote to our timid age
Curious and curiouser
The afterlife of Lewis Carroll and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Debutant novels and great expectations
John Self on debut novels that provide an insight into publishing in Britain
Ties out, tattoos in
Whether ties are out or tattoos are in, there is a performative aspect that in both cases can hide a murkier if not awful truth
Murders for early June
Jeremy Black’s ominous murder mystery round-up for the early summer