Gwendolyn Brooks
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
More than just noise
Berg, Schoenberg, Webern: Piano works (Warner)
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
