Sex
Holiday reads by the recently departed
1980s fiction might more profitably fill your beach-y or gîte-y afternoons
A problematic poster boy
Peter Tatchell’s troubled history makes him a questionable representative of public order
The pornification of everything
In today’s dating market, women who would prefer porn practices kept out of their bedrooms have little negotiating power
Unflinching view of a fall from grace
If Carrère can be so honest, there is hope for lesser sinners
A butterfly on an operating table
The abstraction of desire achieves nothing
Sterility as liberation
Sex positivity drains the erotic of existential meaning
The tyranny of acceptance
Not every choice is exactly free or at all good
Sex matters in medicine
Obscuring biological differences is dangerous
The UN’s global Californication
Who on Earth is it speaking for?
Killing and kissing
An engaging account of sex in wartime
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
The monumental cradles of democracy
Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
