Dylan Thomas
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation
Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
The false prophets of war and turmoil
All eight of Whatmore’s subjects would have been astounded by the
stability of the British state through the 19th century
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Harry Potter and the bourgeois-bohemian dream
Looking back at the dreams and resentments of an ascendant class
The age of the news influencer
TikTok reveals a broader existential crisis facing the media and our consumption of the news
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
Beheading a pigeon
For all its quirks, bushcraft offered valuable insights into modernity and tradition