Beautiful Visions
Van Morrison turns eighty.
Van Morrison turns eighty.
The Beatles phenomenon is being mined for more meaning than the people at its centre ever intended to convey.
A new boxset edits out one of John Lennon’s most controversial songs.
Other plots may attract both right and left-wing authors, but successful geopolitical thrillers are always informed by a conservative view of the world.
Amid literary subcultures, competition has always been fierce and unrelenting and has become even more so in our age of elite overproduction. On social media, these embittered rivalries play out in public amid a chorus of backbiting worthy of Chekhov.
Love is transformative—and in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare is clear-sighted about the fact that that transformation can be for the worse.
The campaign to strip novelist John Boyne of his Polari Prize longlist honour shows that gender extremists still seek to control progressive arts subcultures—even as mainstream society rejects their illiberal movement.
The Constance Holden Memorial Address, 2025.
A reply to Lawrence Krauss.
A tribute to the man who helped to revolutionise modern rock music and reality TV.
If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much.
‘The Technological Republic’ is a searching indictment of a culture that has lost sight of its metaphysical horizons and now seeks an escape from history.
Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’ is fifty.
The Trump administration is proposing to end support for some of the cutting-edge scientific research that is crucial to America's economic prosperity and military security.
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen: “When you systemise, you try to analyse the rules, the events that happen with some regularity, and causal relationships, so you can identify predictable patterns.”