Detective novels
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
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
We are the cultural Norns
Here, at last, is a mind-expanding podcast that is the antidote to everything the wretched Arts Council stands for
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
When the populist meets the Pope
Javier Milei and Pope Francis represent very different and often hostile elements of Argentinian cultural life
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Chinese whispers
Oliver Dowden’s tough talk on Chinese hacking is less than wholly convincing
Nova’s diary: Everything’s different now
Rishi is helping our neighbour, Big Jeremy, with his sums
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
The Church of England has failed on gender
To pursue kindness at the expense of truth is self-defeating
Would you trust PC Brother?
The use of unreliable facial recognition technology is growing without sufficient scrutiny or accountability
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
