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
Tangled up in the myth of Dylan
Age hasn’t withered Dylan. He was always running towards it, arms open wide.
The modern age in lists
Plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off
Only collect
The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors
Banned from reversing abortions
If abortion providers really are “pro-choice” then why are they stopping Dr Kearney?
Vaccine for the soul
As Britain is about to declare victory over the virus, Christopher Pincher enjoys a Latour-Bellona
Bursting Boris’s bubble
Labour has found an attack line that has the benefit of being true
Hip-hop with a Weimar vibe
Bertolt Brecht’s didacticism puts off a lot of people who are sympathetic to a marxist world view
Stonewall’s Ratner moment
Stonewall has become that dangerous thing: an organisation with power and resources floundering for survival
Flying fiends
The wasp may be hated, but you’d be amazed by its intelligence
Letter from Washington: The great lab leak U-turn
A theory dismissed as ‘disinformation’ has suddenly gone mainstream