superheros
We don’t need another (super)hero
The shrinking world of the superhero franchise film.
The sadness of Sceptical Man
Emotion need not entail irrationality, and fence-sitting need not involve wisdom
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
What makes a gentleman tick?
Of course, there are watches and there are watches, and then there are watches
Scary cute
CUTE, a new exhibition at Somerset House is a deliciously unsettling stroll down the uncanny valley
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Love in a remotely-controlled climate
If we outsource our decisions to
machines, we will be less capable
of navigating our own feelings
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places