August 27, 2025

Don’t mourn old England Pre-industrial nostalgia is a mistake

Samuel Rubinstein

26.08

The rise of the trauma star TV justice is replacing the real thing

Lily Isaacs

22.08

Art should trigger you True drama is an emotional ambush

Kathleen Stock

21.08

The terror of the aged woman The horror film ‘Weapons’ revives an ancient archetype

Justin Lee

20.08

Does MAGA need a drink? Temperance is a losing position

Matthew Gasda

20.08

Follow Lévi-Strauss into the jungle ‘Tristes Tropiques’ rejects the safety of the café

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

19.08

How sororities seduced the online Right MAGA Barbies have a dark side

Poppy Sowerby

19.08

Why did Hollywood ignore a Turkish delight? ‘About Dry Grasses’ is seriously seductive

Geoff Dyer

18.08

How to revive mythic Britain Rosemary Sutcliff conjured a vanished land

Aris Roussinos

15.08

You can’t steal a Cossack’s soul They put freedom over ideology

William T. Vollmann

14.08

Why megaliths still wield power They’re immune to human indignities

Alexander Poots

12.08

Vladimir Nabokov: teasing trickster He reinvented himself in his seventies

Jonathan Meades