Culture
Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
What the Dickens!
150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics
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?
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
British universities should stop using foreign students as a crutch
Its short-term benefits are obvious but it is not a long-term solution
A tumultuous decade of ingenious novelties
Did the English Revolution go full circle, replacing one overmighty king with another?
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
The problem with EDI
Equality, diversity and inclusion policies are constraining free thought and dividing people
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
