The rise and fall of the British music press
In their glory days magazines such as NME and Melody Maker defined youth culture – but the quality of the…
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The false promise of grammar schools
In his new book, A Revolution Betrayed, Peter Hitchens overstates the merits of selection in state education.
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The wonder of children’s art
A new book of pictures and drawings is an attempt to help adults recall what the world looks like to…
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From Marguerite Duras to Anthony Seldon: recent titles reviewed in short
Also featuring Bandit Country by James Conor Patterson and Looking To Sea by Lily Le Brun.
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Why Rome had no culture wars
The clash between Caesar and Cato offers lessons for today, but also reveals the gulf between modern and classical thought.
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The dark heart of Roald Dahl
A streak of pure nastiness runs through the author’s anarchic, beloved children’s literature – just as it did through his…
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Matt Hancock’s Pandemic Diaries are a delusional piece of self-aggrandising fan fiction
In these retrospectively constructed “entries”, Hancock casts himself as the hero of both the Covid crisis and his love life.…
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What cells tell us about life
Siddharta Mukherjee’s new study of how cells work reveals the complexities of the human body – and the science that…
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