Outside The Box
The University of Manchester has decided to cut 171 academic posts — but it's not at all clear why
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The 57th Venice Biennale
'"Another day, another cock'" might have been a better title for the 57th Venice Biennale."
Can Macron Save France — Or Is He Its Undertaker?
The youthful President inherits a broken political system and a disillusioned electorate. He has five years to rescue the Fifth Republic
The Self Is Everywhere — And Yet Nowhere
In the absence of the soul, selfhood is located in the brain. But can identity be identified?
And I Too Have Been In Anglo-Arcadia
The Durrells' Anglo-Greek love affair — and Catherine Brown's
How Self-Help Doesn’t Help Us
The self-help guru Svend Brinkmann's antidote to self-help culture
Envoy Sans Pareil
The ambassador of ill-repute, Prince Talleyrand
Jacks High
In the event that Scotland leaves the Union, we need a cunning plan if we are to retain the UK's flag
South Bank Oberon
The memoir of the National Theatre's former artistic director is absorbing, insouciant and amusing
The Enduring Myths Of Catholic Inequality
Anti-Catholic calumnies remain deeply embedded in our culture. Professor Rodney Stark's Bearing False Witness hopes to refute them
Last Of The Great Elitists
A book of conversations with George Steiner, newly available in translation, is a good introduction to the great cultural critic's preoccupations
Hellenistic Hubris
Johanna Hanink's The Greek Debt asks if we owe the Greeks for the foundations of Western democracy—or do they owe us for their economic mismanagement?