Literature
Scribbler with a gift for women
Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Very public introspection
The content of “misery lit” is disturbing, but what purpose does it serve?
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
Barking up the wrong tree
Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling