The turf
The government may for the moment have disbanded its circular firing squad, but racing has never shown a greater ability…
The good, the bad and the ugly
TV currently abounds with ‘I thought they were dead’ revival projects: series in which your favourite 1980s movie stars are…
Real life
‘Notice from your vets’ said the email subject. I clicked and there was a letter telling me that my vet…
Undramatic melodrama
A heroic Asian woman parachutes into occupied France to work for the resistance and help overthrow the Nazis. This sounds…
Low life
The sunny, growing month of November is the British expat’s Provençal dividend. Every morning the meridional sunshine comes in through…
Measured in love
If you’re planning on seeing The Last Flight Home at the cinema, don’t make any plans for afterwards as you’ll…
Dazzling gems
The Koh-i-Noor in this Diamond Celebration of 60 years of the Friends of the Royal Opera House garnered the least…
Drift, bloom and sway
Plus: it’s quite clear that MUNA are going to be huge What is it with Icelanders and mushrooms? Just weeks…
Old wine in new wineskins
With 7,000 living languages now in the world, there are countless pitfalls for translators, as John Barton demonstrates
Seven women
The catalogue to Making Modernism opens with an acknowledgment from the Royal Academy’s first female president, Rebecca Salter, that in…
Disparate tribes
There is no single community, Harry Freedman stresses, but a multitude of voices ranging from the liberal to the ultra-orthodox
Weeping and laughter
Mrs Yi is a folk healer in a remote Chinese village where the living commune with the dead and rocks relay warning messages
Making waves
Lily Le Brun explores our shifting relationship with the shoreline through works by Vanessa Bell, Paul Nash, Bridget Riley and other modernists
Deadlier than the male
There are hard-hitting thrillers from Margie Orford and Rijula Das – as well as an engaging mystery by Erri de Luca
A kingdom of the mind
When an Irish shipbuilder’s son was crowned king of a Caribbean rock in 1880, few would have guessed how long this eccentric monarchy would last
Order, meaning and beauty
Witold Rybczynski’s majestic survey takes us from Brittany in 4,800 BC to Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry
The might of night
Moving stealthily through starlit fields and woods, John Lewis-Stempel marvels at nature’s many dark mysteries
Old-world decorum
The former lady in waiting is renowned for stoicism, but now digs deeper into her troubled marriage to Colin Tennant
Jordan Peterson: conservatism’s spiritual leader?
Canadian political commentator and best-selling author Jordan Peterson – best known for helping young men put their lives back together…
Why America’s future is still bright
‘There is a lot of ruin in a nation.’ So said Adam Smith over two centuries ago. He reminds us…
Cardinal Zen’s conviction shows that no one is safe in Hong Kong
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the 90-year-old retired bishop of Hong Kong, has been convicted of failing to register a humanitarian…
