Stoddard Martin
Stoddard Martin is a writer and publisher. His most recent fiction, under the name of Chip Martin, is Argonaut: commencement tales (Starhaven)
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
Indulgent Italian treats
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete string quartets (Naxos)
Rejoice, the war is over!
Remember when Keir Starmer took the knee for BLM to demonstrate his opposition to the culture war?
An optimistic history of women’s rights
Sexed: A History of British Feminism. Susanna Rustin
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Gambling with the numbers
A new survey of problem gamblers has serious problems of its own
Stubbs at flay
His controlled charnel house gave the painter a peerless understanding of horses
Riffs or rigour?
Arts practice has gained the upper hand over scholarship
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
Southport and the inescapability of politics
There is nothing essentially wrong with talking about immigration
Without a twist
This weather-based thriller is all hot air, but who doesn’t enjoy a warm summer breeze?