Is antisemitism a progressive blindspot?
In discussions of identity politics, one group always seems left out argues a new book
Arts & Books
The best live and streamed theatre this March 2021
A duo of Alan Bennett at Bath's Theatre Royal, plus National Theatre at Home
The dark side of the sea shanty
Jaunty nautical tunes have been keeping us entertained in lockdown—but songs like the “Wellerman” belong to a cruel age of whaling
Literary lessons from George Saunders (and Chekhov)
A chatty yet eagle-eyed analysis of the Russian masters will set writers on their path
The best television in the UK this March 2021
BBC One's Bloodlands plus ZeroZeroZero
The best new podcasts in the UK this March 2021
Hunting Ghislaine, celebrating middle-aged life, and Clara Amfo discovers a new London
Karachi—restless and resilient city
The Pakistani port city is a microcosm of the nation
The best films to watch in the UK this March 2021
Nomadland, plus Netflix's News of the World
The beastly return of Francis Bacon
The artist's distorted, visceral figures expose humanity’s animal nature
The seductive appeal of abandoned places
The seductive appeal of abandoned places
Dark side of the moonshot: can the state really fix our broken capitalism?
For those running a country, technocratic policy-making has its attractions. But don’t forget the politics
The imagined superiority of Britain
Sovereignty, prestige and a lost, mythologised past
Prophetic strain: the roots of Milton’s radical zeal
Milton was a political as well as poetic revolutionary. How did the author of Paradise Lost find himself?
The best classical and opera to stream this March 2021
Including Thomas Adès's Birthday Concert and A Century of Music by British Women
The rise of the internet novel
Patricia Lockwood and Lauren Oyler’s new novels grapple with the pathologies and pleasures of the internet—and remind us of the profound importance of life away from the screen
What it's like to be: a bat
The seemingly trivial question has taken up an enormous amount of earnest intellectual energy ever since it was posed in a famous philosophy paper in 1974—and we've learned more about the lives of bats since
Will Rishi Sunak’s luck hold?
Our big-spending chancellor has been universally admired during the pandemic. But as the debt piles up that might not last
My rights, your wrongs: Nigel Biggar’s flawed attack on ‘human rights fundamentalism’
A new book’s attempt to critique the philosophy of human rights—and the “progressive zeal” of the judges who uphold them—ultimately fails to convince, says the former president of the Supreme Court
How Martin Scorsese and Fran Lebowitz helped me beat the lockdown blues
Netflix’s Pretend It’s a City relishes in vicarious conversation between two old friends
Picasso’s Face—VS Pritchett Short Story Prize-winner 2020
It was probably a mistake to take the baby to the beach...