We can’t consign Boris Johnson to history yet
Andrew Gimson’s biography of the former prime minister describes a man who can pull off a miracle. With the Tories…
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Why “Jerusalem” is the anthem England needs
William Blake’s poem, set to music by Hubert Parry, is viewed by some as patriotic, and others as a progressive…
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Hilary Mantel: “The writer occupies both past and present. She is never absent from the story”
In the novelist’s final published work, she considered the “creative friction” behind her Wolf Hall trilogy.
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Football’s data delusion
A new book by Rory Smith looks at why the English Premier League is still searching for its Moneyball moment.
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The vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams
In reviving local and popular musical traditions, the composer found haunting new expressions of Englishness.
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From Elizabeth Strout to Robert Harris: recent books reviewed in short
Also featuring How To Speak Whale by Tom Mustill and a history of the Nineties by James Brooke-Smith.
By5 October 2012: Sophie Elmhirst visits Hilary Mantel, her reputation on the rise, on the cusp of her second Booker…
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Hilary Mantel’s death is an incalculable loss to our national life and literature
The late novelist’s extraordinary talent was to take our collective history and make it new.
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