Middle-age
Let there be light
Raphael’s masterful depiction of divine light owes much to Dante, who incorporated the latest
optical thinking in his visionary poetry
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Plagiarism: a racist weapon
It has been genuinely disturbing to see Claudine Gay ousted simply for being an empowered black woman
Why do we mourn the unborn?
Our attitudes towards children in the womb are hopelessly confused
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
The worm (re)turns
Dune: Part Two is in cinemas — and it’s more of the glorious same
J.K. Rowling is honest, not “nasty”
Attempts to discredit the author are increasingly pathetic
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Jonathan Glazer’s speech was an affirmation of Jewishness
Critics who accuse him of denying his identity have things backwards
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
The Stratford MSG Sphere would have been a dystopian nightmare
Light pollution is not a fringe issue and we need to reconnect to the night sky