Matt Hanson
Matt Hanson is an art critic who has contributed to The New Yorker, The Smart Set, LA Review of Books and other publications. He tweets @MattHansonAF.
“Scottish visas” would double down on two failed ideas
The plan offers the worst of devolution and mass migration in one policy
Brooding blokes
Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist
The virtues of complaint
There’s nothing anti-feminist about female complaint
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
Playing the long game
Rishi Sunak misjudged the electorate by prioritising tax cuts over the country’s future
How gender identity hurt women in Argentina
Argentinian women need refuges — but only for women
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”