Rescue specialist
He had a particular skill with those who had fallen foul of the system
To win the war, stop fighting
Drug cartels and the underground economy fear legalisation and deregulation
Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
The unremarkable truth about America’s Covid response
The US handling of Covid-19 does not make it a ‘failed state’
Sex tips from Semele
Opera was the tinder of Renaissance Venice, says Robert Thicknesse
Big news reaches a small town
Where was I when the Berlin Wall fell and Margaret Thatcher resigned?
Carving out a new genre
Digital theatre is now beginning to offer stalls-starved audiences the kind of quality work they would have queued to see live
Derrida deconstructed
Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible
The Divine Comedy at 30
The Divine Comedy will be playing a concert at the Barbican on 14 October to celebrate Neil Hannon
Black’s History Week
The Critic’s new weekly podcast series, with Professor Jeremy Black