Letters
Write and wrong Sir: As a former member of the Society of Authors I read with interest Julie Bindel’s article…
See Naples and live
Hazzard’s spiritual awakening on reading Leopardi’s poems and first seeing the Bay of Naples led to a lifelong passion for her adopted country
We should never have tried cosying up to Chinese investors
I can’t read ‘China rocked by protests’ and ‘Zero Covid could be the end of Xi Jinping’s rule’ without recalling…
Glorious ruins
Oliver Smith takes us on a tour of train graveyards, bunkers, ghost towns, crumbling palaces – and a 7,000-bedroom hotel in North Korea that never even opened
Hotel of horror
A teenage maid goes missing after a party of men arrive at a lonely alpine hotel for a sinister carnival feast
The nation’s attack dogs
Mark Urban describes the remarkable feats of the parachute regiment created under Churchill’s orders in June 1940 to rival the Fallschirmjäger
The eye of the beholder
Other artists include James Gillray, Quentin Blake, Lucian Freud – and those inspired over the centuries by an overlooked subject in art history: the egg
Storm clouds brewing
Spanning the 18th and 19th centuries, Gardner’s novel tells the story of young Neva, whose ability to predict the weather nearly ruins her
The man who knew everyone
The New York socialite devoted much of his time to saving wild life in Kenya – though a new biography ignores some of his less reputable views
Love me tender
If you’re of my generation, I expect your first encounter with D.H Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover was the (well-thumbed) book…
Stranger things
‘The Age of Anxiety’, W. H. Auden’s book-length poem, has always been described as strange, and difficult. It is an…
Absolute Rodness
Reader, I let you down. But I did so for the right reason: for love. On a night when all…
Hair brained
It’s not until you see this exhibition of drawings by Henry Fuseli that you realise that most artists have really…
The path to power
Volume I of the definitive biography covers the first 50 years, from his birth in Vienna to the publication of his classic, The Road to Serfdom
The glee of hatred
For those who consider themselves traditional liberals (full disclosure: such as me) Sunday’s first episode of Simon Schama’s History of…
Christmas cracker
Elf opens with an unbelievable premise. Buddy was abandoned as a baby and adopted by Santa’s elves and he spent…
As camp as Christmas
Whoosh! A digital starburst, a sweep of orchestral sound and the stage of the Coliseum is alive with dancing, whirling…
Change the government, or the reef gets it!
As far as Australian left-wing politicians were concerned, the threatened endangerment finding on the Great Barrier Reef was just blackmail.…
Labour’s disturbing attitude to press freedom
Once in every generation the Labour party gets tired of losing elections and prepares for power by neutralising potential sources…
