Evil stories
Plus: The complete Auden, imaginary numbers and more
Prufrock
Saturday
Thursday
The exhaustion of American culture
Plus: America and Israel, a history of Labour and more
Wednesday
The lost art of dying
Plus: The history of Library of America, reading Larkin and more
Wednesday
The man who invented waterskiing
Plus: Medieval street musicians, a married Eliot, and more
Saturday
Ancient souvenirs
Plus: a speculative history of France, Auden’s essays and more
Friday
The supposed prosperity of ancient Rome
Plus: The life and work of René Magritte, the never-ending OED and more
Tuesday
Molière at 400
Plus: England’s eccentric gardens, Blade Runner at forty and more
Thursday
Lincoln in context
Plus: Céline’s war novel, Oxford’s disappearing second-hand bookstores and more
Tuesday
What your bookshelves say about you
Plus: The English jazz scene and more
Saturday
Dog dreams
Plus: A not-so-radical history of the American Revolution
Thursday
Those tiresome gendered novels
Plus: P.D. James’s moral detective fiction, the rise of palm oil and more
Tuesday
The problem with climate change alarmism
Plus: In praise of bookstores, a radical left-wing critique of feminism and more
Saturday
Writing race
Plus: Against emotional overstatement, a history of frankincense and more
Tuesday
Should writers talk?
Plus: The Doobie Brothers, Eudora Welty and more
Saturday
Is Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose a failure?
Plus: A life of Tocqueville, Britain after the Sixties and more
Thursday
The world’s lost manuscripts
Plus: A history of paganism, military art and more
Tuesday
In praise of throwaway culture
Plus: that New Yorker voice, disappearing counter-culture and more
Monday
The debasement of art
Plus: Dimes Square, the new Top Gun and more
Thursday
Bicycles: machines of the left
Plus: Inigo Philbrick serves time, lost Amazonian cities and more
Tuesday
Return of the writing guide
Plus: mid-century rhymers, misunderstanding sleep and more
