Detective novels
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
The not-so-beautiful game
Paul Lay and Nick Timothy discuss the morality — and immorality — of football
Language, truth and logic
Talking to Stella Creasy is never easy
Winning the culture war in the American South
American conservatives have tried a new technique to team the statue-toppling social justice warriors dominating universities
Is banning conversion therapy legal?
Government plans still have serious questions of law to answer
This town ain’t big enough for the both of us
Crisis and continuity in the Spanish right
Bring back Victorian YIMBY-ism
We cling to the buildings our 19th century forebears left behind, but they would decry our squeamishness
The power of flags
Even in a material age, symbols matter
Reasons for Rishi to be cheerful
Soaring inflation means the Chancellor can avoid an unpopular tax hike
Hans Winterberg: orchestral works (Capriccio)
The lost sounds of a German Jewish composer
The bacchanalia of Kawanabe Kyōsai
This exhibition at the Royal Academy revels in the artist’s versatility
Spaces of our own
What the backlash against women-only spaces reveals about rape, trauma and prejudice