Sigrid Nunez
Catnip for culture lovers
Contrasting works from a veteran master of invention and two newer faces who blur fact and fiction
Land of slippery slopes
Does anybody really believe assisted suicide will stop at the terminally ill?
Fraser Nelson’s immigration holdout
The columnist may still be fighting but the war has been lost
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
Ageing gracelessly?
A new book on care is filled with empirical insights but short on rhetorical power
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Donald Trump doesn’t know what a woman is, either
Believing that the sexes are different does not mean appreciating their humanity in full
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
