Caucasus
Tigran Mansurian: Con anima (ECM New Series)
You may find that Con anima is one of the best ways of spending the next 15 minutes of your life
None should sleep
A TOSCCA conversation on potential catastrophe in the Caucasus
Can Labour be talked off the pledge?
Starmer should not double down on trans radicalism
Accusations of transphobia are pure misdirection
Barrister Robin Moira White has falsely accused the AEA of “transphobia” for defending women’s rights
Steel works
Beth Steel’s House of Shades is a confident new nod to the tradition of multi-generation family sagas
A madman’s guide to Wagner
You don’t have to be crazy to enjoy Wagner, but it helps
Rooster booster
Pretty much the whole of Jerusalem is in some way “problematic”, which is why people relish it
Beauties and the beasts
Our urge to anthropomorphise animals obscures the fact that we are all part of the same complex ecosystem
An unfinished masterpiece
One senses that, in this volume of Picasso’s life, John Richardson is only doing the hands and faces
We are failing rape victims
The vulnerable are sacrificed to indulge the entitled
Real social responsibility
Be wary of companies with public sector monkeys and a diversity officer on the board
More than whippets and flat caps
Brian Groom’s Northerners weaves together a rich seam of rebels and innovators
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time