Eley Williams
A guide to the plangent lineaments of love
Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
Matters of life and death
John Self reviews Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell, The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams, and The End of Me by Alfred Hayes
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
The shadow of the thorn tree
Christian culture must combine tradition and modernity
A step forward for academic freedom
It is time to take the fight to censoriousness in higher education
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Student Loans don’t add up
a fairer way out of a
disastrous policy mess
The Islamists’ young recruits
Islamist networks are increasingly targeting children, and the British state refuses to acknowledge the problem
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
The old age elephant in the room
Does Andy Burnham seriously think that he can fix social care?
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music