Asian Hate Crime
The Atlanta spa shooter was not a victim of temptation
M. Woods reveals how Asian-American women have been blamed for sexual immorality since the Gold Rush
The death of luxury
When did we all decide to stop travelling, and living, in style?
The EU’s appetite for power
What has Europe learned from Roe v Wade?
High politics and unholy power plays
British policy in the Ottoman Empire was not driven by Orientalism, but self-interest and self-deception
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Buildings for butchers
How should we judge the grandoise building projects of murderous dictators?
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Dedication’s what you need
Down with the gratitude-bloat of authors’ endless lists of acknowledgements
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
Good God, I can’t publish this…
The ancient art of the literary rejection
The art of influence
Culture and propaganda are not easily separable
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written