Book Review

Pronouns are far too interesting to be left to trans activists on either side

A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity

Music’s vast dismembered brocade enchants practitioners and listeners alike

A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations

On his return to Yorkshire, Len Hutton was dubbed a knight of the realm

The neglect of the history of Islamic slavery reflects a culture of American exceptionalism and a tradition of denial

An illiberal America and a war-torn, world-weary Europe are failing to champion our Western civilisational values

The Bishop of Hippo and his circle brought to full life and colour

Human reproduction remains unique in the animal kingdom in the intensity of care demanded

The delight of the diaristic form is seeing through another’s perspective