Issue: January 2020
Reclaim the streets
Too many of our town centres have become hollowed-out, windswept deserts. But if we make them fit for people, they will return
Migrant wars
Armed militias and pro-immigrant groups battle it out in Trump Wall land
A light in the darkness
A pioneering school ofers a new vision for South Africa’s failing education system
Brexlit and the decline of the English novel
Literature’s outraged elitists chose smug contempt over real insight
Wolf bites back
X.Trapnel on the latest literary feuds and fancies
Sissy porn and trans dirty laundry
Louise Perry reviews Females by Andrea Long Chu
Sharing the pleasure in poetry
James Booth reviews ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain: Collected Writings on Philip Larkin’
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Manners maketh answers
Rudeness does not make for good television
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
Greene around the gills
A truly ghastly gastropub
Respect for the quarry
Can we love the things we kill?
The great American dream
Beware the lure of the vast US market
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre