Maria Albano
Maria Albano is a recent graduate and freelance writer.
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
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
The abdication of responsibility
A monarch quitting undercuts the point of the institution they represent
Stravinsky’s aching quality
Stravinsky, Bartok, Martinu: Works for violin and orchestra (BIS)
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
Feminism has a women problem
Debates about sex and gender have exposed the significance of intrasexual disagreement
The artistic case for historical accuracy
There is no conflict between being truthful and being compelling