Thriller
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Taking on ISIS and Eichmann
Covering a French spy thriller, a documentary on Eichmann and a British government drama
Haunting Ghosts
Two timely dramatisations of espionage in the Middle East
Paper trail
Thrillers from Finland to Afghanistan
Diamond geezers in Antwerp
From crime dramas to political thrillers, Adam LeBor reviews television from across the world
TV crime spree
From Washington to Belfast via a conspiracy thriller, Adam LeBor reviews the latest television drama.
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
Final frontiers
Adam LeBor on two TV series that are set in border regions, that feature engaging female characters and that are beautifully filmed
Murders for late May
From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring
Is a guaranteed sale fair?
Auction house practices may be distorting the picture
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
Correcting Cass’s critics
Attempts to intellectually discredit the Cass Review have completely failed
It’s time to stop the rot
Students denounced, lecturers cowed and managers with little interest in truth
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
The fallacy of soft power
The world runs on cold national self interest, not cultural capital
Explaining the gender gap in politics
Why men and women have been marching in different ideological directions
