Ocean
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
A flawed masterpiece that will dominate the field
Jeremy Black reviews David Abulafia’s The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
Should we feel pity for the Pelicot accused?
To have endured pain does not excuse inflicting pain
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Don’t bet on green energy
Groupthink has blinded us into backing solar and wind. Will a big short make us see sense?
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
Calm down, dears!
Donald Trump offers no threat to Britain’s core ideological commitments and is unlikely to radically change U.S. foreign policy
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
