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
Doing the Strand
The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club
The Tories haven’t a prayer
Secularism seems to grip the party that was once the embodiment of Anglicanism
Hen don’t
DANGER, women may be having fun in YOUR neighbourhood
Back to the 70s? If only…
Britain is in far worse trouble than we were 40 years ago
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Wogan: heavyweight with a light touch
The absence of Terry Wogan leaves a hole in radio presenting
Digital dysmorphia
The internet has gone from the marketplace of ideas, to a marketplace in bodies
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
Mansplaining womanhood
What is a woman? What are they for? Do they have souls? Men may never know, as that might involve asking a woman her opinion
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim