04/30/2020 - 1:00am

Is this how normal people have sex? The BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney's novel is more high-end porn than drama

Zoe Strimpel

29.04

‘Jerusalem’ is the play we need right now Jez Butterworth's masterpiece is a rare thing: a revival that's in tune with our troubled times

Barney Norris

27.04

How restaurants ate themselves William Sitwell's history of dining out will make you hunger for your favourite local eatery

Tanya Gold

24.04

Short stories for short attention spans John Gray, Polly Mackenzie, Tom Holland and other writers recommend succinct reading to suit our strange reality

Various Contributors

23.04

No sex please, we’re brutish <i>Too Hot to Handle</I>'s phony reverence for chastity is perfect for our hypersexualised times

Louise Perry

22.04

What’s the world’s greatest spectator sport? <i>University Challenge</i> is a truer test of character than kicking a football round a field

Simon Evans

20.04

The unhappy truth about surrogacy BBC drama <i>The Nest</I> romanticises — and normalises — the renting of women's wombs

Julie Bindel

14.04

The narcissism of apocalyptic thinking A hilarious new book shows how the expectation of catastrophe is as much fantasy as fear

Sam Leith

07.04

The obscure mysticism of Steve Bannon Multiple far-Right leaders are inspired by an overlooked, quasi-religious political philosophy known as Traditionalism

Gavin Haynes

06.04

Woody Allen’s brilliant betrayal If you want to know about the man, don't read the autobiography — watch the films

Tanya Gold

02.04

The Magnificent Seven is a post-liberal idyll The epic western is an extended metaphor for the contrast between liberals and communitarians

Giles Fraser

26.03

The ruthlessness of the sexual marketplace The search for romantic love, as a new book suggests, was always a fool's errand

James Bloodworth