Urbino legend
The chance of a lifetime for lovers of Raphael
Paywall
Wednesday
Tuesday
Finding the Lost Girls
D.J. Taylor tracks down the proofreaders and heartbreakers who were the toast of Blitz-era London
The evolution of Vermont
I’ve wintered here all my life and during that time Vermont has, like old Digby’s marital status, seen three permutations
In coronavirus quarantine
House arrest in China could be worse
Global warning: 2020 Dems are floundering on foreign policy
We must end forever wars, except when Trump tries to end them
Monday
The fast and the furious
How to handle Lent
Let’s eat: Israeli cuisine is coming of age
Hummus is the cement of the Levant and claimed, like the land, by both Israelis and Palestinians
The prophetic Raymond Chandler
Chandler’s California is a cultural desert stretching along the western edge of a continental wasteland
Ganging up on Israel
To paraphrase Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, the evil that men tweet lives after them, while the good is oft interred with their bones
Andy Khawaja: ‘the whistleblower’
Andy Khawaja is charged with campaign finance violations. He says there’s a bigger story
Sunday
Bernie Sanders is The Corbynizer
A true socialist, Sanders has been poised on his Marx all his life for this moment
Saturday
Cyrus the Great
A night at Blues Alley with the mighty Chestnut
Friday
The Democrats are fracking insane
Proposing a ban is election suicide. The Democrats are doing it anyway.
Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
Cats: The Snuff Movie
Too many Netflix true-crime documentaries are tiresome and overlong. This one was a lot worse than that
Birth of a nation
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla reviewed
Wednesday
Democrat blues: the leadership fears and loathes the grassroots
Party bosses appear to espouse the betrayal of their base as a core value
Tuesday
Palermo without borders
At first glimpse there appears to be no serious backlash against incomers
Monday
A Trumpian feast
Dining out at the Trump DC
Saturday
California bound
Wine may have been born in Virginia, but it matured elsewhere
