Literary Review
The real Amis?
X.Trapnel on the book world’s latest guessing game
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Shed and buried
X.Trapnel on cakes, fakes and stocking fillers
Booker prize chumps
The inside line on the book world
Surely the final series
Script writers attempt to spice up “Covid briefings” with the Brazilian variant
Women need to demand freedom, not safety
Calls to change public life to protect women set a bad precedent for the way in which we view women’s freedom
Hindemith: Wind sonatas (Warner)
Paul Hindemith’s music is extremely well-made, intelligent, civilised, and moderately witty — so why has it all but vanished?
Letter from Washington: Biden’s biggest problem
Immigration is a fraught issue for the president
Escape to Vaccinery
Where’s the reckless rogue Tory MPs elected leader? Who’s this square?
Letter from Washington: Lucky Joe
The surprising continuity of America’s Covid response undermines Biden’s central boast
Should sitcoms be resurrected?
If there is to be a Frasier revival, producers should learn from the mistakes of past spin-off shows
Myth of Igor, the Great Composer
Norman Lebrecht says an affair with Coco Chanel did Stravinsky’s PR, and hers, no harm at all
Exclusive interview: Uganda’s Bobi Wine on the country’s ‘fraudulent’ election
Former popstar Bobi Wine has pledged to exhaust all legal options before taking the fight to the streets for a non-violent resolution
EU micro-aggressions: should Britain stoop to retaliate?
The EU is about to take legal action against the UK. Can the post-Brexit “special relationship” with Brussels be repaired?