Big Jay McNeely brought joy to millions with his music
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The legendary tenor saxophonist died last weekend aged 91
Dominic Green
Wednesday
Monday
‘If you don’t want to taste the goat’s milk, at least watch the farmer in action’
Did Ashraf Marwan jump, or was he pushed? Not his fall off the balcony of his luxury apartment in London in July 2007, which is how Marwan, an Egyptian diplomat turned billionaire, met his unexplained and highly suspicious death, but his tumble into the arms of the Mossad, into whose tender embraces he slipped in
Friday
Boris Johnson summons the spirit of Churchill in Washington DC
Boris Johnson landed in Washington, DC on Thursday evening just ahead of Hurricane Florence, and leaving far behind the attentions of the British media, which over the last week have shown more interest in Johnson’s amicable divorce than his less than amicable campaign to replace Theresa May. In town to accept the Irving Kristol Award
Tuesday
Selling Europe’s new Muslim vote
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Electoral fraud in Botkyrka would have changed the result
Monday
Julia Salazar’s identity politics
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There aren’t many situations in which identifying as a Jewish Latina immigrant socialist would give you a competitive advantage
Review: Operation Finale
They don’t make anti-Semites like they used to. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not complaining. But you’d think people who pride themselves on their metaphysical superiority would have more self-respect. Apart from the Nation of Islam, who remain true to the faith by dressing in the suit and bowtie of lower middle-class, small-town European Judenhass circa 1920,
Monday
Who’s afraid of Steve Bannon?
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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: The Bookshop reviewed
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
Friday
Life’n’Arts podcast: The Special Relationship in the age of Trump
In this week’s Life’n’Arts podcast, I talk with Nell Breyer, Executive Director of the Association of Marshall Scholars, about the United States and Great Britain in the age of Donald Trump, and the Marshall Scholarships, an unsung element of the postwar architecture of Atlantic security. In 1953, the British government, led by Winston Churchill, created
Saturday
Handling Pooh with kid gloves
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Christopher Robin reviewed
Monday
Life ‘n’ Arts podcast: celebrating American audacity with William Giraldi
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William Giraldi, author of the novels Busy Monsters and Hold the Dark ahead of publishing his first collection of essays,
Thursday
Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul is dead
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
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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
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The Cary Grant of the alt-right?
Tuesday
Frenemies of the people: Why Trump and the press deserve each other
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It’s getting harder and harder to choose between a president who can’t tell the truth, and a publisher who can’t admit it.
Sunday
Ben Brantley isn’t transphobic – he’s pitiful
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The New York Times critic has nothing to apologise for. Yet he has apologised.
Thursday
A plot not so much paper-thin as soggy and smeary like used toilet paper
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Mission Impossible: Fallout reviewed.
Saturday
Film review: Netflix’s The Skin of the Wolf
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Paws for thought
Wednesday
Two out of three ain’t bad: Jetlagged Trump’s European roadshow, reviewed
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Is the likeliest explanation of Trump’s U-turn really that he’s a Russian agent?
Monday
Meet Michiko Kakutani, the conservative
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The former New York Times reviewer’s study of truth reveals how she’s been driven to outrage by the erosion of cultural and critical values.
