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 popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
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How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes
A very postmodern schism
A postmodern spectacle exposed deep divisions about the nature of truth
Is football hooliganism fashionable?
As violence returns to Edgware Road, official insistence that two-tier policing is a myth looks increasingly difficult to sustain
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
RIP New Labour?
Keir Starmer’s failure should mark a decisive break with a failed consensus
Kemi always gets it right
Whatever the crisis, the Conservative leader invariably discovers that events have vindicated her.
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)