Literature
Lost in translation
Attempting to understand the lives and thought of our ancestors can teach us about ourselves
Literature amid lies
Leonardo Sciascia sought justice in the face of cynicism
Publishing has an AI problem
From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines
What Pullman gets wrong about Narnia
Philip Pullman is more like C.S. Lewis than he might think
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
Was Shakespeare really a black woman?
Too many intellectuals still cannot let Shakespeare be Shakespeare
Must we burn Samuel Pepys?
What the Pepys censors fail to grasp about the Restoration era
Why Václav Havel matters
He is a model of artistic and ethical courage
Against literary safetyism
Writing, and reading, is about taking risks
The shadows of Christmas
Why M.R. James is the real spirit of the season
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
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
The Arctic circle: a game of ice and fire
The Arctic is fast becoming a hotspot for great power competition
Carl Schmitt in Miami
Can Marco Rubio establish a new American system in Latin America?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
Anti-gambling campaigners need a reality check
Affordability checks on punters are counter-productive
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
Working with Woods
There have been too few honest explorations into the intrinsic link between woods and humans
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
Calypso and carnage
A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket
The excesses of intellectual illiberalism
Justified dissatisfaction with liberal modernity has curdled into something alarmist and authoritarian
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation