Mary Beard
A vivid chronicle of chroniclers
Richard Cohen’s history of histories is a gargantuan achievement
Fast food and stolen goods
The Critic Narrated: Episode Seven, with Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Daisy Dunn and Michael Prodger
The emperors’ new clothes
Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
What’s wrong with the Human Rights Act?
It makes judges the arbiter of moral and political as well as legal decisions
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The cinematic future is bright
“The End” is in sight for communal film-watching, right? Wrong
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Ultra processed arguments
Public health commentators cannot seem to decide what is safe to eat
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark