Renaissance
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
Sex and Sanctity
There are wonders great and small in the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
Masterly study of sacred masterpieces
Embodied divinity
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
Whatever happened to the polymath?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic’s political editor, Graham Stewart, about the idea of the Renaissance Man
Commoner with the divine touch
Raphael, as dedicated a lover as he was a painter, died at 37 at the height of his powers and fame, illustrates Michael Prodger
Drill music’s token freedoms
Defences of free expression have become hopelessly unprincipled
What’s the point of university during a freedom of speech crisis?
Students should be taught to do more than agree
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
Enthralling eclecticism
Roberto Gerhard: Don Quixote, &c. (Chandos)
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Dress code
How did Starmer not know how it would look? (The donation, not the clothes)
How the Tories can win again
The new leader of the Conservatives must reach an important, ignored sector
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Does vaping do more harm than good?
It seems improbable
