Issue: November 2020
Sharing the great American dream
The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Smart work from the Old Vic
The Old Vic shows the way
A pair of Czech masterpieces
Two new Czech masterpieces
Acts of faith
Hephzibah Anderson plants her spring bulbs
Bursting the bubbles
Surely it would be better for economies if the markets were to run on a more even keel?
Reviving the inner anarchist
A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
Cut and thrust
Hannah Betts admires a pair of quality-obsessed British labels
Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
Little cup of perfection
Lisa Hilton praises a divine lunch in Santiago de Compostela
Wheeling and spieling
Thomas Woodham-Smith breaks the antique shop silence
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
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
Polish piano
Andre Tchaikowsky: Piano concertos (Ondine)
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The online life that steals your soul
Read this book and then stamp on your phone
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
Red tape and black markets
Prohibition is a criminal’s best friend
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
The poetry of Easter
Reason cannot entirely account for the particular and the mysterious
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd