London
The trial of the Mangrove Nine
Steve McQueen’s dramatisation of the 1970 trial of the Mangrove Nine is a triumph
Just keep swimming
Those of us who partake in open air swimming should be allowed to return to this miraculous prophylactic
Remembering Lord Nelson
Gawain Towler fondly recalls his local pub as it closes for the second time due to lockdown
Woo-woo wins out
I’ve succeeded in keeping Will in London… for now
Unfinished Business at the British Library
The British Library’s new exhibition on feminism is like being hit with a rolled-up copy of Spare Rib
When you pile tragedy too high, you sell it too cheap
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery (until 31 October)
An awful warning
Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories
From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
All dressed up and raring to go
A brilliant, ambitious volume of art history — but physically difficult to read
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously