James Joyce
Questions of life and death
BBC Radio 3’s soporific pap is the musical equivalent of assisted dying
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
The Critic Books Podcast: 100 years of Ulysses
What has changed since Joyce’s novel was first published?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Unholy war
The Kremlin’s actions contradict its image of itself
We need to make a better case against Magic Monetary Theory
Simplistic rebuttals help MMT endure. We need better arguments
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Britain must call its exiles home
The nation cannot continue to lose its top talent
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
There is nothing authentic about Andy Burnham
The blokeish Labour man is as slimy a politician as the rest of them
Cloaked Crusader
Richard I: valiant hero of Romance but also a perfidious, self-serving lord