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
Public Enemy Number whatever
Frederic Raphael defends his friend, the writer Joseph Epstein, latest victim of America’s cancel culture for daring to mock Jill Biden’s doctorate
The gay anti-Nazi brotherhood
In recognising the threat Hitler posed and swimming against the tide of public opinion, the glamour boys defied the stereotypes
Murder on the Dancefloor?
Government plans to send undercover police into nightclubs are absurd and destructive
Vaccine certification: when intolerance meets hypochondria
It’s high time that we stop allowing fear to rule our lives and re-establish a healthy relationship with the risks that have surrounded us since time immemorial
The ring master
Bullfighting was a lifelong fascination for Francis Bacon and played an increasingly important role in his work, his high-risk approach matching that of the matador
Labouring unloved
In the West we’ve yet to make the acknowledgment that overwork can be deadly, says Katrina Gulliver
Cracking good meals
Explore the splendid panoply of egg recipes for an Easter, feast, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
World-class snob, first-class diarist
Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level
European Research Group demand NI Protocol is scrapped
The ERG join the Protocol fight, but will No.10 change tack?
Hurst Castle could have been saved
Following the collapse of the sixteenth-century sea fort, Brice Stratford says that the disaster was completely avoidable