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
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
London vs the rest of the country
The publishing industry should aim to be more provincial and less metropolitan
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
Zack Polanski’s war on carrots
Cheap food is not evidence of exploitation but of competition — something Adam Smith understood long before Zack Polanski
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches