Book Review
Penny for your thoughts
Laurie Penny writes a book about how to deliver change while actual feminists are getting their hands dirty
For the fellas
In What Do Men Want?, Nina Power crafts a peace treaty between the sexes
Murders for January
While away the winter with would-be classics
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
In my ears and in my eyes
The Lyrics: the autobiography Paul McCartney never wrote
Thinking on inking
An intellectual tries — and fails — to find deep philosophical justifications for the modern wave of tattooing
The dying days of Nazi Germany
A growing body of literature deals with the horrors of WWII from a German point of view
To critique the critic
Harold Rosenberg’s mixed legacy counterbalanced both Communism and formalism
Could the US be heading towards civil war?
A crash course on the causes of modern civil wars
Move over Nigella, Nigel and Nadiya
The cookbook of the year was written by an elderly rogue and self-published
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
No joke
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act is absurd, but nobody’s laughing
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Irish politicians have lost touch with the people
The failed “modernisation” of the Constitution may not be a one-off failure for Irish liberals
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Apologies are useless without action
It is nice that Gillian Keegan has acknowledged reality, but it is not enough
X scandal
The fault lay in the dirty minds of the viewers, he said
High praise for low standards
Why intellectual life needs more, and more systematic, criticism
Regency romance
Small human moments cut across the centuries
