Book Reviewing
Don’t believe the hype
The use of author testimonials to sell books is a performative exercise in gilding the lily
Gretchen Bellamy: Kindly Reviewer
Is there a book she doesn’t like?
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Moral progress has happened not because of, but in spite of woke activism
People who have enabled falsehoods and abuse cannot take credit for civilisational advances
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Silence speaks volumes
Lee Anderson speaks out — or, at least, gets someone else to do it for him
