Crime Novels
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
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
“Bold vision”
An action or choice can perfectly well be bold without being good
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Journeys in Genderland
The stories of people caught up in the madness of gender ideology are beyond belief
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
