Nineties
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
The celebrity trap
Women are punished for becoming the objects they are required to be
The devolution delusion
Britain is stuck with the recycling of failed ideas
Why I still travel with my Rough Guide
The series has no equal
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
Fear and loving
Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
The great migration
What will Twitter do without its smuggest inhabitants?
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
