Books
Just a pill?
How psychiatry pathologises female experience
Delivering a monstrous injustice
It’s enough to make you go postal
Why modern novels are so boring
Writers who forget bourgeois aspiration lose a dimension
Fuccboi: a load of modern toss
A failed American Psycho for the PornHub generation
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
Pardonable sensationalism
Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics
Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
What a piece of work is man
Anna Della Subin’s new book explores how leaders become Gods
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
Most Read
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
Questioning Islam should not be policed
Luke Salmons’s legal victory should lead to a change in police culture
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
Critical briefing: EU-Taliban talks
As European governments harden their approach to migration, Brussels has taken the extraordinary step of negotiating directly with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Zelda Zingari
Arty types: the fashionable poet
Food pairing is folly
A warning against trying to match wine to dish
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Pärtly good
Arvo Pärt: 4 symphonies (Chandos)
Taxing the lights on
Miliband’s new levy undermines the very investment needed to bring energy prices down