Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
Woolf: heart or brain?
Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
A life of indulgence
Jacob Rees-Mogg has a major persona and a minor career
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
A taste of history
Travel to Italy to savour the majestic “Barolo of the South”
On the death of pets
It is not losing a human, but it is losing a loved one
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Don’t idolise Roger Scruton
Our reverence for the late thinker must not limit our imaginations
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Alexandre de Moraes is no hero
Don’t make X an ex-X
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
