Dead letters
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler reviewed
Books & Arts
Pawn show
The Queen’s Gambit overcomes its hackneyed ‘girl power’ message
Hungry like the rabbit
Eighty years ago, Bugs Bunny first launched himself on an unsuspecting Elmer J. Fudd
The man who hunted himself
Graham Greene needed peace of mind and escapist thrills
Wish you were there
On the joys of armchair travel
Heroine problem
Female antiheroines — at last
Peake practice
An artist with the soul of a pirate
Lullaby in Birdland
Life is still a cabaret
Kurt Vonnegut: atheist, socialist, trad
Vonnegut did plenty to offend the conservative Christian sensibilities that characterized my educational institutions
The king is dead
It’s like rock ’n’ roll never happened
Epic of gossip
The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame 1968-2011 by William Feaver reviewed
