The Critic Books Podcast: Mrs Death Misses Death
Salena Godden is in conversation with Francesca Peacock
Julie Bindel in conversation with Raquel Rosario Sanchez
Did the University of Bristol enable Rosario Sanchez’s bullying and harassment?
The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars
Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts
The Critic Books Podcast: 100 years of Ulysses
What has changed since Joyce’s novel was first published?
The Boer War
Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
The Critic Books Podcast: Penelope Corfield’s The Georgians
How different was the eighteenth century to our own?
The “Scramble for Africa”
Was the “Scramble for Africa” in the late nineteenth century strategically planned?
The Critic Books Podcast: Nick Blackburn’s The Reactor
A compelling memoir about grief and repair
The North American Question
Was the American Republic destined to dominate the continent?
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
How to be anti-woke without being weird
There is a thin but vital line to tread
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
