August 15, 2025

You can’t steal a Cossack’s soul They put freedom over ideology

William T. Vollmann

14.08

Why megaliths still wield power They’re immune to human indignities

Alexander Poots

12.08

Vladimir Nabokov: teasing trickster He reinvented himself in his seventies

Jonathan Meades

08.08

Sunset Boulevard exposed Hollywood’s vanity We’re all divas now

Frederick Kaufman

08.08

John Dunne: the original ‘wife guy’ He accepted Didion’s stardom — at a cost

Lily Isaacs

07.08

Novels were always for girls Lit bros have moved on

Mary Harrington

06.08

The Pogues soundtracked Irish London Shane MacGowan knew the city’s underworld

Darran Anderson

02.08

Benidorm is England’s id Nobody sneers at tourists here

Cosmo Adair

01.08

Gwyneth Paltrow never grew up Even her cruelty is childish

Kat Rosenfield

30.07

Trump’s climate policy is class warfare MAGA wants to own the libs

Matt Huber

29.07

The triumph of the lowbrow Tech and inequality turned us all into slobs

Ryan Zickgraf

29.07

On Bonnie Blue and Roger Scruton We have stripped sex of enchantment

Kathleen Stock