Issue: July 2023
Eccentricities and obsessions
Novels that say a lot without making lots of noise
Rhodes scholars
Lisa Hilton enjoys a simple and superlative Greek-Italian taverna in the Aegean
Art’s tragic tug of war
Like Scheherazade, Bruno Schulz traded his art for life
Riches of the east
Mikanowski’s timely book pours iridescent light on the lands and peoples of Eastern Europe
Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise — His Final Months
In the final months of his life, the troubled artist achieved a brilliant and under-regarded new stage of expression
Pains of Victorian labour
The experience of pregnancy and childbirth in 19th century Britain was no picnic
Remembering an unfashionable writer
BBC Radio 4 attempts to resurrect fallen literary figures.
A glove affair
Christopher Pincher on great glove-making
Lost in translation
Do not dream of comparing Roma history with the Jews
Breaking taboos with clay
Jo Bartosch interviews ceramicist Claudia Clare, whose uncompromising work has upset the censorious art world
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Roger Scruton’s naive nationalism
Cultural nationalism is an ill-fitting model for the modern nation state
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The case for Jenrick
He can reform the party and take on Labour
The odd world of Peter Oborne
How has a far-sighted conservative commentator fallen so far?
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The grim quasi-religious doctrine of “unconscious bias training”
Baroness Royall’s commitment to the idea should concern Oxford students, academics and administrators
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
