Terry Eagleton is still the most formidable critic of populist late-capitalism
Culture is the latest book by academia’s Jeremy Corbyn, but hopefully not his last.
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Taming the shrew, two ways: Shakespeare for the stage and the page
Vinegar Girl and The Globe’s Taming of the Shrew offer two new takes on a contentious play.
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Thomas Wolfe biopic Genius is a hackneyed portrait of the great white male
Genius ends up being terrifically boring, while enthusiastically reproducing the creative hierarchies of the time it portrays.
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The constant gardener
The novelist Paul Kingsnorth on Anglophobia, voting Leave and teaching his children to live off the land.
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Location, location, location
Pinpoint: How GPS is Changing Our World by Greg Milner reviewed.
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SRSLY #49: The Great British Sewing Bee, The Essex Serpent, The Lady Vanishes
On the pop culture podcast this week, we watch The Great British Sewing Bee, read new novel The Essex Serpent and revisit 2013’s The…
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Women for sale: can you be a capitalist and a feminist?
We Were Feminists Once is a sometimes confused look at the question – but it reminds us to focus on what we’re…
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It’s unfashionable to call someone a “genius” – but William Empson was one
Rather than denying the contradictoriness of being human, Empson revelled in it, as The Face of Buddha reveals.
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