diva
Missing the point
Why opera needs fictional dead women
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
The wines of Israel
Israel’s wine heartland is now suffering from rocket attacks
Are we losing control of our collections?
We need trustees who actually believe in our museums
Lutfur Rahman and the future of localism
A new and dangerous kind of local politics is emerging in Britain
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
