Matthew Adams
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
Constitutionally deformed
Robert Peston and Kishan Koria would make our democracy far more dysfunctional
Goodnight Vienna
A new Austrian musical taps dark material to produce a brilliant, unsettling and darkly funny exploration of the Anschluss
Masterful pianism
Bartok, Janacek, Szymanowski (Warner)
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
How the Greens blackened their name
The leadership of the Greens allowed gender fundamentalism to undermine the party
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
Poland after the wedding
The Polish art scene is stuck in a futile game of tit-for-tat
Sunak stumbles
The Prime Minister spent half of the afternoon trying to extract his foot from his mouth
NATO’s unhappy birthday
The world is growing more dangerous and its members need the will to confront new challenges
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions