Issue: August/September 2021
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
Poop poop purchases
Thomas Woodham-Smith goes shopping for the dealer’s friend, a whale on wheels
The G&S divide
A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan
Such, such were the goys
Jonathon Green says the xenophobic 1920s novels that inspired his lifelong love of literature should not be cancelled
The terrible south
Claudia Savage-Gore crosses town to go the extra mile for Hector
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Beware of Basil
These enlightened times now ensure Jenny also runs off with the male parts!
National distrust
Like the monasteries, the National Trust has long since strayed from its purpose. It’s time for reformation or dissolution
War-war leads to jaw-jaw
This is a starkly different interpretation on the proliferation of written constitutions and rams it home with cogency and panache
90 minutes a slave
Are re-enactments of the Underground Railroad culturally insensitive — or a tool to help America understand its history?