A long shelf life
Our need for physical books is greater than ever
Durrell dissected
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945 by Michael Haag
Publishing’s heyday
The world of publishing as Cheetham knows it is vanishing
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Saint Sánchez?
How the Spanish Left uses the Right to hold power
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The games we play
Richard Holt’s sweeping survey of sporting history shows how games, from cricket to boxing, became one of Britain’s most durable cultural languages
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Bach in black
CPE Bach: Berlin Symphonies (BIS)
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration