Kate Clanchy
Life gets worse for verse
Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon
The comings and goings of “Club Cupido”
Dominic Hilton recalls the cast of characters at a Buenos Aires club de barrio
Mapping the Blob
The Long March draws together evidence that we half knew but shied away from
No prefix required: how gay writers came of age
Douglas Murray refuses to mourn the death of the gay novel — a genre that was once ghettoised has joined the mainstream
Unvarnished tyranny
This is perhaps the only book I have yet read about Amin which gives anything like an accurate assessment of who he was
France, Mali and military coups
French interventionism in Mali has fostered little stability
Britain’s Brexit deadline abandoned
Both sides no longer recognise 15 October as the last day by which a deal can be struck
Letter from Washington: Nancy Pelosi and the coming vaccine wars
What explains the House speaker’s attack on British regulation?
The future of Britain’s stately homes
How has the coronavirus pandemic affected Britain’s country houses?
Making sense of evil
Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition
Commoner with the divine touch
Raphael, as dedicated a lover as he was a painter, died at 37 at the height of his powers and fame, illustrates Michael Prodger