Book Review
Signal failure
An inside account of the HS2 raises worrying questions about our government’s capacity to build infrastructure
Suffering: the consequences
Dual reflections on on the vicissitudes of victim status
Strong, silent — but still box office gold
Clint Eastwood is as much a part of the American landscape as the Grand Canyon
The rise and fall of English Lit.
Oxford showed little enthusiasm for its national language and the literature that followed
Maker’s dozen
The buildings that forged Christian communities still powerfully impact them
Goethe, a man of ideas
Even to list the academic fields in which he was a pioneer is exhausting
Will “they” catch on?
Pronouns are far too interesting to be left to trans activists on either side
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
A heavyweight companion for life
Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike
Slaves’ descendants don’t deserve reparations
A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations
