More fake news on Brexit from the New York Times
Stephen Castle has painted a picture of a Britain in panic based off a Facebook group of 1,200 people
Dominic Green
Wednesday
Monday
Will the royal baby be an American?
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to confirm to the public that it All Works Down There
Writers’ lives do not make good movies
Colette reviewed
Sunday
The hipster art-incest of Private Life
Private Life reviewed
Thursday
‘Don’t quote me. They would kill me’: A professor speaks about Brett Kavanaugh and #MeToo at Harvard
Is the Harvard Law campaign against Brett Kavanaugh opening the door to an inquisition that could lay waste to its senior faculty?
Friday
Puritanism vs Pornography, and the agony of America
‘Tell ‘em Lindsey sent you!’ he squeaked, offering himself up like a human sacrifice on the altar of entertainment
Thursday
Was Theresa May attacking Trump, or a blond populist closer to home?
The Prime Minister’s UN gambit exposes her as an unreliable, unsuitable partner
Saturday
Thursday
No-one comes off well in the Allen-Farrow family drama
We could believe either Allen’s version or Farrow’s, but that would get us no closer to the truth, because neither is trustworthy and both are proven fantasists
Wednesday
The trouble with American universities: I talk to Jamie Kirchick
Life’n’Arts podcast with the Brookings Institute fellow running for a seat on Yale’s board
Big Jay McNeely brought joy to millions with his music
The legendary tenor saxophonist died last weekend aged 91
Tuesday
Selling Europe’s new Muslim vote
Electoral fraud in Botkyrka would have changed the result
Monday
Julia Salazar’s identity politics
There aren’t many situations in which identifying as a Jewish Latina immigrant socialist would give you a competitive advantage
Monday
Who’s afraid of Steve Bannon?
Cancelling the former White House strategist might win back the respect of New Yorker readers — but it won’t help in their quest to explore ‘Ideas’
Any storm in a port
Reports of the death of bookstores are fiction. In 1931, there were about 4,000 bookstores in the United States. Almost all of them were gift stores, selling a limited stock of paperbacks. Only about 500 of them were specialist bookstores, and almost all of them were in major cities. True, between 1995 and 2000, the
Saturday
Handling Pooh with kid gloves
Christopher Robin reviewed
Monday
Life ‘n’ Arts podcast: celebrating American audacity with William Giraldi
William Giraldi, author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark ahead of publishing his first collection of essays,
Thursday
Only Aretha Franklin had the soul power to summon the spirit at will
Aretha Franklin, who died this morning at the age of 76, was called the Queen of Soul. But she did not inherit her crown, so much as create it. Nor, though she inspired plenty of oversold and over-souled pretenders, did she ever have a plausible heir. She wove that crown from the music of the
Sunday
Twitter and the twilight of the philosophers
We will not be able to trust the internet giants on what is fake or true so long as they lie to us about the nature of their business.
Wednesday
America, meet Tommy Robinson – if you must
The Cary Grant of the alt-right?
