Culture
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?
Greater Polish representation with subverted expectations
Ben Sixsmith reviews My Friend the Polish Girl
Mindfulness won’t get you through the lockdown
Brits needs to rediscover their stiff upper lip
What will become of the hospitality industry?
Has Britain’s favourite pastime of eating and drinking reached its peak? How will the industry recovery from this financial blow?
The Rise of the Dominics
Dominic Green on the prevalence of his own name
Blessed are the geeks
The San Francisco Bay Area is short on solutions to old problems
Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
A little world of death
Christopher North says the decline of bull fighting is greatly exaggerated
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
Techno, bombs, and babushkas
A month travelling across Ukraine
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Burgundy on a budget
In search of the wine lover’s holy grail
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
The Democratic Party deserves Donald Trump
Its arrogance and complacency have been exposed
If Donald Trump wins, it’s over
Three assassination attempts prove irrefutably that Trump is guilty of inciting violence
