New York
Start spreadin’ the news
New York will be poorer, cheaper and more violent for the foreseeable future
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
American Tolstoy
Time to proclaim the greatness of Herman Wouk, once feted for the sweep of his historical novels
A brilliant life of ideas, insight and politics
Gertrude Himmelfarb: an intellectual giant who believed history could save us
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Ye new inne
Fiona Duncan looks forward to post-Covid hospitality
BLM racists don’t speak for me
How have racial slurs become progressive politics?
Right Royal Rubbish
The new Meghan and Harry book is full of sycophantic trivia, almost as if it came from the horse’s mouth
Let’s not lose our heads over Rhodes
Can a man loyal to his Oxford college really be all bad?
The world turned upside down
Dominic Hilton survives in crazy Argentina by not caring about its fate
2+2 doesn’t equal 5
What is truth?
The new televangelism
The best US television drama has a strong religious dimension
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
Why non-racist whites are racist
Titania McGrath’s take on a thrilling year for racial equality
Vive Le Roi!: St. Louis refuses to cancel St. Louis.
How St Louis’s statue of King Louis IX will not be toppled