Ulysses
The Critic Books Podcast: 100 years of Ulysses
What has changed since Joyce’s novel was first published?
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Gothic staging
The Turn of the Screw, Coliseum
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
Neither beautiful, nor true
The new Fourth Plinth commission creates moral and artistic confusion
Carole Cadwalladr’s conspiracy theory
The feverish paranoia obscures valid questions
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
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Iranian women deserve more support
Self-styled internationalists are failing them
