Arts & Books
Why tax does have to be taxing
Dividing up the UK’s revenue among all its nations is a tricky task
The folly of the Cuban missile crisis
How the world came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse
What to watch on television this month in the UK—BBC’s Three Families and the Crime of the Century
Plus Channel 4 on the truth about police stop and search
The best classical and opera in the UK this June
Grange Park Opera's Falstaff plus Der Rosenkalier at Garsington Opera
The missing Benin Bronzes
More than a century ago, the Bronzes were taken by the British during a brutal colonial campaign in West Africa. Is it time they went back home?
The northern literary rebellion
How regional publishers are paving the path for working-class writers
The best art exhibitions in the UK this May
Eileen Agar at the Whitechapel, and Canaletto returns
Shtisel—the unlikely TV hit about orthodox Jews
The travails of an Israeli family encompass sex and death as well as religion
What a free-thinking medieval Muslim can teach us about animal welfare
Exactly 1,000 years after the appearance of al-Maʿarri’s “The Epistle of the Horse and the Mule,” the work of the vegan poet still resonates
The subversive philosophy of Simone Weil
Her family called her Antigone, her classmates “the categorical imperative in skirts”—but Simone Weil was a profoundly influential thinker
The best theatre in the UK this May
Ralph Fiennes takes on TS Eliot, and The Death of a Black Man at Hampstead Theatre