Chess
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
The Queen’s Gambit
Why women’s chess matters
Chairman of the board
Magnus Carlsen’s recent triumph proves chess is a dynamic sport
Why you should add chess to your home school curriculum
It is strange to think that a piece of wood on a board can be so emblematic of what it means to be human
Closing the books
Thomas Woodham-Smith finds the latest research is online
Donald Trump and the age of sovereign internationalism
We are entering a new age of great power competition
Leave our pubs alone
New public health proposals are missing the pint
Lightweight Kate Winslet
Our most versatile of English roses must accept that one role is beyond even her
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Hi-energy nutrients
Schoenfield, Vivier, Bartok &c (Accentus Music)
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
