Gender Studies
Playing the ace card
Bruised by the fallout from its belligerence over trans rights, Stonewall has a new cause
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
Messing with the master’s work
Beethoven: Emperor Concerto; Brett Dean: A Winter’s Journey (Orchid)
Postmodern fantasy
Modern fantasy authors often try and subvert traditional religion, with bleak and unoriginal results
A short guide to voting in the general election
From Gorgeous George to the Newark Chainsaw Massacre, the Critic brings you a selectively exhaustive guide to the parties running in 2024
Will the next prime minister stand up for women’s rights?
Rhetorical progress has been made on gender issues — but will it affect policy?
The illusion of normality in Nikopol
Determination and death on the front lines of Ukraine
Terrible beauty
Does the World Press know what constitutes photojournalism?
In the beginning: neither fish nor fowl
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
The end of “Anglo-Saxon”?
The rebranding of Anglo-Saxon England is senseless and silly
July letters
Tory trans activists and franchise folly
Against beautiful losers
We must lose our attachment to the good-natured failure
