Literature
An off-kilter visionary
Henry Green had a strange and distinctive talent
William Golding and the curse of the dream
We must resist the lure of utopianism
Bret Easton Ellis — the enfant terrible who finally grew up
How he at last lived up to his promise
The new establishment
Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?
The art of literary celebrity
How do writers become more than their books?
Read for pleasure
Against the functionalist approach to literature
The truth about book reviewing
What does it mean to be critical?
No country for old men
Publishers get rid of talented editors whose worn faces don’t fit their youth-focused world
Remembering an “effervescently affable man”
Kurt Vonnegut at 100
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
The ongoing reality of Russian imperialism
People rationalising Russian military intervention are betraying their ignorance of Russian history
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Dissent is not hatred
We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
British defence must be renewed
War may not be imminent but Britain must still be secure
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
We’re all living in America
Britain’s elite is obsessed with Trump and the States, when it needs to concentrate on the Home Front
