Issue: March 2021

Radio drama is prone to over-signalling regional differences, says Anne McElvoy

This biography on Sir Stanley Rous and sport in the twentieth century is scholarly, balanced and well-written, says Lincoln Allison

The latest buzz from our back-stage gossip

T.V. show, The Repair Shop, is just what we need in these dark and fractured times, says Adam LeBor

Do we really need another biography about Francis Bacon? The answer is emphatically yes, says Christopher Bray

The rambling and discursive nature of the writing lends Rupert Everett’s book an enjoyable appeal

Best-selling novelist

The magazine that declares its main aim is to review books does anything but

Reform of judicial review is a solution without a problem

The origins of the word