Mary Magdalene
The lives of Mary Magdalene
A fine book explores her life and afterlife
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Butchering La bohème
Opera is “relatable” already
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
