Books
Emerging from Sri Lanka’s lockdown: a morning at Colombo’s booksheds
A S H Smyth pays a visit to one of his favourite places in Colombo
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
The jokes must go on
Christopher Bray reviews Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
Me, Myself and I
The hip young authors who write about their greatest obsession – themselves
It ran in the family
Alexander Larman reviews Fall of the House of Byron, by Emily Brand
More plausible than real life
John Preston reviews Beneath the Streets by Adam Macqueen
Significant others
Selina Todd reviews Female Husbands, by Jen Manion
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Of men and birds
John Self reviews Enter The Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
My first Carr
A S H Smyth discovers a true English literary eccentric, born on this day in 1912
Coronavirus: Following the herd on school closures
Is the rush to close schools really necessary?
Amateur Educators
How the inexperienced home-schoolers are coping
In with a bang. Out with a whimper
The state bankrolled nationwide celebrations for Britain joining the European Community. Not so the leaving party.
The Brexit boost for British bio-science
World-class laboratories have been freed from the dead hand of Brussels regulation
Free traders win round one
The Agriculture Bill was cleared of all protectionist amendments
Lobsters for Lent
Abjure fasting for good deeds, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto