Mark Le Fanu
Mark Le Fanu teaches world cinema at UCL. His most recent book is Believing n Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema (I.B. Tauris)
Art in Paris under Covid
Mark Le Fanu goes to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Marmottan, and the Musée Antoine Bourdelle
The literal gaze of James Tissot
An exhibition of the work of the 19th century painter James Tissot has opened in Paris
An adult view of monarchy
The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Can jokes in terrible taste ever be funny?
Wisecracks is clearly the work of an academic philosopher adept at teasing out fine distinctions between “offenses” and “harms”
Hurray for the Murrays
It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Are the grown ups really back in charge?
Centrist commentators are wallowing in limp clichés instead of asking serious questions about policy
The Road to the Cass Review — (2) Stephanie Davies-Arai
How doubts began to penetrate the walls of gender ideology
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
The new Ottomans
The fall and rise of Istanbul under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan