Issue: November 2020

Covent Garden’s first post-lockdown offering is in a long, grim tradition

Emily Wheater and Ellen Pasternack say the gender change lobby is failing young people who change their mind

The Midlands are hurried through, unappreciated on the way to somewhere else

Honesty about how exhibits were acquired is a necessary first step in addressing our imperial past

Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction

Selling the Royal Academy’s greatest treasure would be risky and morally wrong

Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible

The great scholars of the Middle Ages had their own word for Trans

Alexander Larman talks to the controversial director of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum

Julie Bindel shows how abused women are being let down by domestic violence perpetrator programmes