Philip Roth
Is biography having its very own reckoning?
Blake Bailey has become the latest figure to allegedly fall foul of the uncompromising moral standards of American publishing
Why are great writers such awful people?
In the wake of renewed controversy over Philip Roth’s treatment of women, Nigel Jones asks whether there is a link between creative genius and sexual unorthodoxy
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The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
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Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
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An exhibition devoted to Pan-Africanism avoids important political and aesthetic questions
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Quinlan Terry
He kept the flame of classicism alive at a time when it burnt very low
Fit for a queen
Hannah Betts reassesses the late Queen as a royal style maven
Are Reform the new Greens?
As the Green Party loses interest in rural matters, Richard Negus considers the claim that British agriculture and the countryside have a new champion
Will Spain become a Protestant country?
How immigration is changing the religious dynamics of a traditional Catholic stronghold
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
California dying
The world’s dream factory now produces scenes from a dystopia
One deuce of a decider
This is it, when you look into the abyss and the abyss looks back into you
Amazing Grace? Meh, it was OK
If there is a reason to see this play, it is Ralph Fiennes