Where are all the good books on sex?
Polly Barton’s “oral history” of porn shows the myopia of cultural criticism drawn from personal experience. We desperately need a…
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The limits of humanism
How do we reconcile our capacity for good and evil? Humanist thinking does not have all the answers.
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How Noël Coward became the archetypal English success
A new biography shows how he began life as a revolutionary and ended it hosting the Queen Mother.
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From Benjamin Myers to Timothy Garton Ash: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Eve by Claire Horn and A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
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The history of the American South is as contested as ever
In the home of both the Confederacy and the civil rights movement, the past is never dead.
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The feminist case against progress
From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind as…
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Victoria Bateman: “I use my naked body to try and subvert things”
The feminist economist once saw modesty as a necessity in order to be taken seriously. Now, she protests nude.
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Who is criticism for?
Seth Rogen’s protest against bad reviews misunderstands the role of the critic in the fight against mediocrity.
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