Culture
Mario Vargas Llosa: some reflections on his legacy
The late writer was a sane and sensitive cartographer of power
After the carnival
This year’s edition of Liverpool Biennial marks the end of contemporary art’s authority over contemporary life
Bum deal
The Queen of Spades, Garsington
In defence of the unjustly neglected
It can be a mistake to think that our cultural margins have been defined by merit
The transformation nobody wanted
The artistic should not be sidelined in favour of the commercial
Oval’s books go up in bureaucracy
We should mourn the loss of Oval Tube’s book swap library
Safe battles, safe applause
Our theatres fight yesterday’s battles to avoid confronting today’s risks
Desert love songs
Giulio Cesare, The English Concert, Barbican
The irrational theatre
The state of the National Theatre is tragic indeed
The arts are being crippled by conformity
A new report shows that the last place to find rebellion is the arts world
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
The ephemeral Farage
Nigel Farage’s appearance in Parliament was as rare as it was undistinguished
The end of anonymity?
The moral norms of the internet are being destroyed by zero sum politics
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Dining in a different world
Transported by a restored institution
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
The Goodwin that failed
Pareto and the problem of elite circulation
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
Labour’s battle of egos
There is little love left to lose between those plotting regicide in Downing Street
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Farewell to an intellectual giant
Patrick Nash pays tribute to the late
David Abulafia, fastidious champion of
Oxbridge’s academic standards