Modernism
Modernists can be monarchists
Radical composers are not out to smash the system
Women on the edge
A feminist frame that doesn’t fit
How can we solve a problem like modern architecture?
We must look rather than argue
L’Architecture of Lanarkshire
Urban planning should depend on local residents more than abstract debates
A singular modern master
Architect John Outram fused high-tech and tradition to create his own unique style
Dreamy spires
Oxford’s brilliant modern buildings
The Critic Books Podcast: Latchkey Ladies
Marjorie Grant’s novel was out of print for over a century
More than just a grumpy anti-modernist?
It’s time we appreciated the art of Sir Alfred Munnings
There’s more to 1922 than just Woolf, Joyce, and Eliot
We should pay attention to Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth von Arnim
Stumbling blocks
Owen Hatherley offers a vital but frequently flawed guide to post-war British architecture
The personal has become far too political
Something has gone very wrong when we are acutely aware of politics
Murders for September
British detectives go abroad, as this month’s chillers take us from a fictional Spanish island to the Far East
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
Israel, the ICJ and the plausibility of genocide
Commentators are misunderstanding the provisional measures of the International Court of Justice
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Defending an outdoor smoke
There is no rational argument for prohibition
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
