Hezbollah
Out With a Bang
It’s the end of the road for Lebanon
The “conversion therapy” ban still makes for bad law
Recent amendments have failed to answer serious concerns about its implications
The problem with e-mortality
Techno-utopians are failing reason and failing technology
Death throes of a dictatorship?
Amid war and discontent, military rule in Myanmar is faltering
Bevis Marks Synagogue
Britain’s oldest purpose-built synagogue faces a new, more insidious threat
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Not everyone has a novel in them
Literature is the only art in which, it seems, every neophyte is convinced they can succeed
Why this new book will pass unnoticed
Columnist Steve Sailer’s views on genetics and IQ have placed him beyond the pale for bien pensant reviewers
Postcards from before the war
It is no longer possible to reflect upon Israeli culture as if the “Question of Palestine” could be brushed aside
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
