Classic Literature
What the Dickens
Spin-offs are all very well, but can’t we have the real thing?
Been there, read that
Can we leave old books alone?
Mr Darcy’s new gig
Perhaps “white privilege” exists after all?
Murders for early June
Jeremy Black’s ominous murder mystery round-up for the early summer
Riffing on the poetic tradition
William Poulos says that in his wisdom and readability, Llewelyn Morgan serves his subject well
At the hands of Argentina’s “kidnapper-in-chief”
This personal history of the Falklands War brings new details to light
Germany’s crisis of conscience
An unholy alliance of Berlin capitalists and intellectuals has disastrously misjudged the Ukraine war
A Hitch in time
Our Falklands correspondent muses on the importance of the war to the late journalist
The vampire’s mirror
The Undead: Dracula 125 years on
The tide has turned on abortion
The overturning of Roe v Wade is an opportunity for the UK to reflect on its own abortion laws
The wrong kind of victim
Today’s victimhood narratives don’t make space for the most vulnerable
British piano concertos (Lyrita); British music for strings #3 (CPO)
A prawn cocktail of exceptionally competent music to enjoy on Easter Sunday
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Trio and Sextets (Hyperion)
Ludwig van Beethoven’s former secretary and pupil was no forgettable curiosity
Labour of love?
A year in the life of a “TERF” Labour Party Women’s Officer
Broad horizons
Libraries are now much less about places to house books as places for people to work
Another Elizabeth, a second Anne
In our secular age the Queen has been Anglicanism’s most compelling representative