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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
Jorge Luis Borges
A giant of Spanish letters who was forged by childhood exposure to his father’s vast English library
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Piano pair strike just the right note
Serendipity has delivered a double bill for the ages this month
The radical feminism—Christianity pipeline
For radical feminists, clarity about the realities of sex often opens onto a search for moral order
Offence archaeology and the future of elections
We have to ignore the cheap and disingenuous politics of offence archaeology
An artful chip
Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven