Women Writers
Rosemary Sutcliff
A writer of genius, capable of conveying the feelings and lives of those who lived in the distant past
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
The solipsistic siren
The sexual liberation and unrequited search of Nancy Cunard emblematises 1920s Paris
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Why do women bear the brunt of literary censorship?
Cancellation is the modern manifestation of public shaming culture
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
Embrace your inner exile
How can we appreciate art in alienating times?
Just the tonic
Rediscover the forgotten treasure of Australia: fortified wines
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Ethnic identity is fine, as long as you’re not English
In the corridors of power, every ethnic grievance is welcome — except for the concerns of the English
Why I, as a mother…
Being a mother can change our perspectives and priorities
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
