Significant others
Selina Todd reviews Female Husbands, by Jen Manion
We have much to learn from nineteenth-century Russia
Since the Cold War we have, to our detriment, become increasingly blinded to the wisdom of the Old Russia
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem (DG)
Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem covers a gamut of moods, from pity to passion
Democracy muzzled
Peter Hitchens says Covid masks are a potent symbol of the West’s headlong flight from Enlightenment values
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
Michaelmas Mayhem
View from Oxford: the beginning of a year unlike any other
The invention of the Trump-Russia conspiracy
New revelations implicate Hillary Clinton, Russian spies, and a British muckraker
Back to the future
Trainsplaining a new world order
Can we help Belarus?
We may not know how best to help Belarus, but it would likely not hurt to look as if we might make an effort
Why non-racist whites are racist
Titania McGrath’s take on a thrilling year for racial equality