Wonderful call of the wild
Macdonald’s prose is full of resonance and beauty, apposite delicacy and memorable evocations, says Matthew Adams
This way, madness lies
Using the name Shakespeare in your book title shouldn’t do anything for sales
A guide to the plangent lineaments of love
Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
We need more have-yachts
The tragedy of the Bayesian highlights a wider issue about our lack of ambition
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The Sturgeon delusion
How the former SNP leader inspired hope and then squandered it
Reject the culture of death
Darkness lies beyond the euthanasia rubicon
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Labour’s timebomb
This one-term Labour government will bequeath a wretched economic mess
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
