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.
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
Communitarianism hits the ballot box
The local elections provided a glimpse of a future where voting is divided by ethnicity
The final death of left v. right?
Old political categories are losing their value
Modernism at the opera house
Everything sacred and beautiful must be dragged through the mud
Mass confusion
The Conservative elites are no match for superheroines like Greta Thunberg and Charlotte Proudman
Death by red tape
“Soft cancellation” is the preferred tool of institutionalised censoriousness
The scarlet letter
A touchy-feely Labour government must embrace the ugly reality of business
Lefty men’s failures have radicalised women
Don’t pretend that feminists are being “radical” for no reason