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
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
Women have bad odds with Dodds
This appointment is an insult from Keir Starmer
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
Greeks bearing gifts
This wine nation has more to offer than retsina
Pilot, playboy, player
This portrait of a gifted and not particularly pleasant man adds another feather to the author’s hat
No golden years
A tragedy in four words: Baby Boomer, still working
On the Cusk of austerity
A cerebral critic pleaser, a dramatic crowd pleaser, and a perennial favourite
Illicit fun
Jonathan Leibowitz: Eastern Reflections (Delphian)
The day of the DfIDs
The real problem with foreign aid
Snapshot of the PM who killed his party
History is a wonderful guide to political practice in the present, just so long as nothing is different
