Him too: is Alec Klein a predator — or a victim?
An unwanted shoulder rub is a bit sleazy but it hardly places a man beyond redemption
Paywall
Monday
Sunday
Cooking for dad: real food is nothing fancy
Alison Roman’s tastes are like my father’s: particular, strident and requiring a capacious definition of the word ‘unfussy’
Wednesday
Ghost riders in the sky
In Lavenham, American history is unlocked by a pint of fine English ale
Tuesday
It’s gonna be a long day with myself
Why am I so hungry? Oh because it’s noon and I’ve been on Twitter for four hours
Saturday
Going both ways
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us About the Language of Science by
Wednesday
Wine is for lovers: mein Gott and yours
I have some good advice about some things you might want to drink after you have gathered with one or two appropriate friends
What can we learn about coronavirus from classic cinema?
My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender
Monday
Heads in the cloud
Life in the age of COVID-19 is connected but unconnected
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
Tuesday
There are lies, damned lies and epidemiological models
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
Monday
What if a virus were ever used as a WMD?
We ain’t seen nothing yet
Thursday
Climbing the walls
A lockdown challenge in Sri Lanka
Joe Exotic is an ordinary American
He is perhaps a little too fond of drugs and weaponry, but he has also overcome great personal misfortune
After the lockdown, the breakdown
The Trump administration’s $1,200 subvention to citizens is a drop in the swelling ocean of debt
Wednesday
Who will win the corona wars?
History shows plagues are bad for big empires with weak frontiers: ask the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
Tuesday
Sovereignty rules
The viruses-don’t-respect-borders slogan is dead wrong
Sunday
The bloody decade: think America’s divided now? Try the 1970s
In 1974 alone, there were 2,044 bombings in America, with 24 people killed
Cab and conversation
A Healdsburg symposium
Saturday
Salami of the sea
Seacuterie is a delicious but annoying culinary portmanteau
The guns of Alexander
In the event of the gun confiscation fancied by the Democratic party’s billionaires and its NPR tote-bag carriers, the hinterlands will not submit