Crime Novels
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
Criminally good writing
Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett
Miss Havisham on heroin
Natasha Green reviews Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, by Kate Griffin
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
Pulsating panorama of a complex decade
A new history of the Interregnum rescues this forgotten period of history from oblivion
Is banning conversion therapy legal?
Government plans still have serious questions of law to answer
The tides of taste
Quality is as desirable as ever
Childhood’s end
A medical vanguard aims to arm children against their own nature
Donald Trump’s teachable moments
What lessons should today’s conservatives take from Trump?
Doubling down on a fraud
Recalling the murky role played by civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton in a notorious faked abduction case
The BBC’s black hole baloney
Auntie makes a cosmic error
The remarkable poise of Allison Bailey
Bailey has shown the strength of her character in the courtroom
What is a woman?
Laura Dodsworth interviews Matt Walsh, the man behind the controversial new film on gender
Godunov for me
Ignoring Russian opera — and, in particular, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — is a mistake