Culture
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker
Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Democratic capitalism on holiday: the buffet
Is the sophisticated joy of the buffet coming to an end?
Can theatres survive the crisis? And should they?
How can theatres come out of this, asks Alexander Larman
Strength and honour: looking back on 20 years of Gladiator
Are you not entertained?!
What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean?
And what is oligarch money doing to the art world?
A Radical Proposal: Book reviews should review books
Give us more judgement, more opinions and more criticism
Where is the Waugh or Wodehouse of our time?
Comic writing: light distraction or social mirror?
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
The war on women’s spaces
Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at
Tense present
Our demand for immediacy makes it difficult to appreciate the past, the present or the future
It is good to challenge kids
That which makes us anxious can also make us strong
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
The fading fumes of the New Right
None of the Tory candidates offer the chance of an ideological makeover
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
