Elena Ferrante
Writing outside the box
Elena Ferrante’s essay collection is an exploration of the delights and constraints of form
Will the real Elena Ferrante please sit down?
It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans
Judith Butler has a projection problem
It is she, not gender-critical feminists, who seems to be afraid
Do hurt people hurt people?
This popular cliché attempts to be generous but ends up implying that victims are tainted
Are we suffering from generational sink?
How can the young find meaning and coherence in the future?
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Unpacking neurodivergence and gender identity
Neurodivergent teenagers are in danger of having their struggles miscategorised
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Queen of Hearts
Perturbed to find Diana has a starring role in Celebrity Help! My House is Haunted
A wilting wallflower
A once ambitious civic project has devolved into the chaos that is London Wall West
Out with the old and in with the new
People are asking why the classic art market has declined — and will it recover?
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian