Book Review
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
The vital few
A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
The horrors of VAR
Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Tragedy, comedy and an Italian parable
Three great novels capture a moment of change for society
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Love, death and drink
Does inspiration really come out of a bottle?
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Noisy decline
Blaring incongruous sound is as much a sign of urban decay as piles of litter
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
