Mary Gaitskill
Men and women and men
John Self reviews Sorry for Your Trouble by Richard Ford, This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill and Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
EDI corrodes the rule of law
Embedding EDI in the work of barristers makes for bad law, not a good society
Britain is at breaking point
The UK is experiencing existential challenges, but neither elitists nor populists offer a solution
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
Scottish independence is dead, for now
But there is no room for complacency or appeasement
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
A constructive opposition
The age of Badenoch is off to a suitably farcical start