AUGUST 1. 2025

Ferdinand Mount: Biff-Bang

It is the least convincing cliché of the age that ‘globalisation has passed its sell-by date. ’ On the contrary, ...

Clare Bucknell: Goodbye Dried Mince

In The Lesser Bohemians, sex is where the narrative sits, not where it goes from time to time, and the frequency with. ..

Susannah Clapp: On Hallie Flanagan

From 1935 to 1939, Flanagan ran the most extraordinary of stage ventures, a dramatic instance of imagination spurred by. ..

Brian Dillon: At Tate Modern

For a while, Leigh Bowery touted himself as a legitimate if outré fashion designer, but it’s clear from the Tate show. ..

Colin Kidd: Lumps of Cram

Most​ UK-based academics who don’t work at Oxford or Cambridge have at some stage experienced the turbulence of university restructuring. In my case, it happened at the University of. ..

Patricia Lockwood: Diary

It was our first visit to Kansas City since before the election and the rectory seemed to have grown smaller, darker, ...

Barbara Newman: Dirty Books

Boccaccio took great pains with the Decameron. He revised it extensively and produced several copies with his own hand, ...

Josephine Quinn: Born on the Beach

Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the. ..

Thomas Jones: Lunch with Mussolini

I’d been told in no uncertain terms at the ‘technical briefing’, even if you think you’re a good driver, even if. ..

David Renton: Short Cuts

With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has. ..

Jorie Graham: Then the Fog

filled the fields. The way forward filled with the wayback. Are those humans out there orjust hollows filled with mercury & ash. When it comes into view the mountain is cleaved open. The silver. ..

Richard Seymour: Baseline Communism

In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions. ..

Jeremy Harding: At the Musée Carnavalet

‘Couple dans une gare parisienne’ In​ 1959, the French monthly Réalités ran a piece by Bernard Frank, a precocious novelist and former protégé of. ..

Clair Wills: The Price of Safety

The trials of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon were held to determine their criminal responsibility for their daughter. ..

Jonathan Coe: Don’t we all want to be happy?

Erik Satie is the progenitor of torch songs and lounge music, systems music and minimalism, even (with his later. ..

James Vincent: Where the Power Is

Phosphates are locked inside rocks, folded into continental strata or scattered as sediment on the ocean floor. It is. ..

Amir Ahmadi Arian: In Evin Prison

In​ the early morning of 23 June, the day before Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire, Israel bombed Evin Prison in Tehran, killing at least 79 people. It was the deadliest attack on a single. ..

Loubna Mrie: ‘We were tricked’

For a long time, it had seemed that Assad might outlast everything. Then, almost overnight, it was over. And with his. ..

JULY 31. 2025

Ecology at the end of the world

Climate activists need to come together to build connection, community and movements - aims and principles can come later.

Where is Liz Truss’s ‘uncensorable’ new social media network?

The short-lived former prime minister vowed to launch her new social media network to take on the "deep state" this summer, but it has yet to arrive