The Dress
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer
Stormont desperately needs reform
The interests of Northern Irish voters are being sacrificed to the perceived needs of the peace process
Thinkers, writers and storytellers
Narrative, voice and good novels — not always at the same time
Britain, 2049
You’ll own nothing, and you won’t be particularly happy about it
Ladies don’t lunch
Dining in style at a quirky and captivating roadside osteria in Italy’s Balkan borderlands
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
A square prehistory of popular music
Rock versus pop, and orchestral numbers versus guitar solos
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
Form-filling our way to excellence
British universities are ill-served by the Research Excellence Framework