Results for "philip larkin"
Paradise dimmed
John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the greatest poem in the English language, yet it seems to be fading slowly from public view. Who could write a new national epic?
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Michel Foucault: the prophet of pederasty
Daniel Johnson says the fact that Foucault scholars now overlook his advocacy for sex with boys shows the great libertine failed to overturn Judaeo-Christian morality
Journal de combat of the Cold War
Encounter’s cultural importance far outweighed doubts about its shadowy funding
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches
Putting a gloss on big ideas
On the outsize influence of small magazines
Laugh to hide the tears
Rishi Sunak was desperate to appear on top form before the Liaison Committee
Young people are not as pro-immigration as you think
The idea that young people are uniformly “woke” is a silly myth
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
The spectre of the past
The “Great English Ghost Story” offers a form of comfort and is rooted in the ache of nostalgia for a more elegant era
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians
Traditions die if there is no one to cherish them
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
