Garth Greenwell
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
Paved with gold?
Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
The esoterica trap
We should not pollute good causes with unreliable information
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
