Books
Eccentricities and obsessions
Novels that say a lot without making lots of noise
Appreciating the small and recherché
There is still some unspoiled Surrey country to be enjoyed
Holiday reads by the recently departed
1980s fiction might more profitably fill your beach-y or gîte-y afternoons
Art’s tragic tug of war
Like Scheherazade, Bruno Schulz traded his art for life
Riches of the east
Mikanowski’s timely book pours iridescent light on the lands and peoples of Eastern Europe
Pains of Victorian labour
The experience of pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain was no picnic
Lost in translation
Do not dream of comparing Roma history with the Jews
Queen of the road
For a quarter of a century, not one British woman could surpass her
On the radar
A fresh telling of a largely forgotten slice of wartime history
A Classical career in an ugly age
The fad-spurning architecture of Hugh Petter
Gorgeous George returns
George Galloway was delighted to be back — but was anyone delighted to see him?
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Attack is the best form of defence
The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Take trade experts and their models with a bucket of salt
The negative impact of Brexit on trade, and the economy at large, is still being overstated
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
