Widowland
The Critic Books Podcast: C J Carey’s Widowland
C J Carey speaks to Francesca Peacock about Widowland
Preparing for the worst
How gender critical commentators are preparing for the impact of the Hate Crime and Public Order Act
Unobtrusively superlative
A quietly brilliant Chelsea staple where the food practically tap dances off the fork
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
Rozsa’s regret
Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral works (Capriccio)
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
The truth is out there
Henry Staunton is dismissed as dangerously “erratic” by the powers that be, but he may just be telling the truth, no matter how weird
