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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American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour
The strange birth of woo-woo
The glitzy LA supermarket chain and the Buddhist food cult behind your wellness smoothie
The banality of Bower
The much-feared biographer is choosing the wrong targets
A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
UnappEaling comedy
A “loose, loose reimagining” of Kind Hearts And Coronets does not really work
Countryside counter-attack
A ban on trail hunting reveals a government more interested in cultural punishment than rural survival
Let’s pay MPs less
MPs are getting another inflation-busting pay rise — even as the country they govern grows poorer
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves