Purple podcasters
The sensible center drives the woke to the edge of reason
Books and Arts
Friday
Sunday
Statues and limitations
How we can reckon with the past without destroying it
Saturday
Perry Mason jars
A brutal backstory for HBO’s decadent detective
Monday
Young Hamlet
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell reviewed
Monday
Revolution then: The Patriot stands alone
Gibson achieves peace of mind by dismembering a redcoat with a hatchet
Sunday
Louis C.K. pulls it off
Funny is money
Saturday
Something woke this way comes
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton reviewed
Tori rebel
Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Courage and Change by Tori Amos reviewed
Thursday
The fatwa artists
Twitter mobs are making journalism and literature more boring
Monday
I hate the Nineties
The Nineties began in hope but ended in disaster
Friday
The modern art of stupid-smart
We’ve always had bogus public intellectuals, but never before have they been quite so bogus
Wednesday
Count my blessings
Meeting the inimitable Basie
Friday
Articles of War
In this excerpt from his autobiography Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime, David Pryce-Jones meets the survivors of the 20th century
Monday
The shape of things
On shape-note singing and my friend Stephen
Sunday
Rach’s progress
Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis by Rachel Johnson reviewed
Friday
The similarity between Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci
The director’s new work, The Personal History of David Copperfield, is certainly brave
Wednesday
Salvant grace
Cécile McLorin Salvant’s shock of the new
Saturday
Going both ways
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us About the Language of Science by
Wednesday
What can we learn about coronavirus from classic cinema?
My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender
Saturday
Dedicated to literature
After Fault Lines, his acclaimed family history, David Pryce-Jones has written another kind of autobiography: Signatures, the memoirs of a bibliophile
