Issue: August/September 2021

This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language

Thomas Woodham-Smith goes shopping for the dealer’s friend, a whale on wheels

A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan

Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled

Claudia Savage-Gore crosses town to go the extra mile for Hector

This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book

These enlightened times now ensure Jenny also runs off with the male parts!

Like the monasteries, the National Trust has long since strayed from its purpose. It’s time for reformation or dissolution

This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache

Are re-enactments of the Underground Railroad culturally insensitive — or a tool to help America understand its history?