Chekhov
Flatpack classic
Summer theatre where anything, including a return to rehearsal-room Brechtian, goes
Bring on the therapists
Chekhovian gloom echoes across the centuries, but Vanya needs new impetus to avoid museum status, says Anne McElvoy
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Violence is a feature of porn, not a bug
Aggression towards women permeates the most popular pornography
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare