China and the WHO are given an easy ride in the COVID blame game
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy by Adam Tooze reviewed
God, it’s slight: Lindsey Buckingham’s new album reviewed
You yearn for a little grit in these pallid oyster
The first time Lindsey Buckingham had a big falling out with Stevie Nicks we at least got some half-decent, if occasionally soporific, music out of it. That was Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, a soft-limbed, coked-up AOR colossus that for many defines mid-1970s music. It contained Buckingham’s finest moment, ‘Go Your Own Way’ — the weird, awkward, staggered…
A 21st-century Holden Caulfield
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki reviewed
God, it’s slight: Lindsey Buckingham’s new album reviewed
You yearn for a little grit in these pallid oyster
China and the WHO are given an easy ride in the COVID blame game
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World’s Economy by Adam Tooze reviewed
Why isn’t Netflix canceling Roald Dahl?
There’s money to be made in spite of his anti-Semitism and contempt for big business
The Crown will long reign o’er the Emmys
The show is a comforting reminder of when the British royal family was unassailable
An orange or an egg? Determining the shape of the world
Latitude: The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition by Nicholas Crane reviewed
Dracula’s children
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Tale of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon reviewed
Shakespeare is getting trigger warnings
Shakespeare, after decades of being found to be Problematic, is now being reclaimed as the wokemeister-in-chief
The AI future looks positively rosy
12 Bytes: How We Got Here, Where We Might Go Next by Jeanette Winterson reviewed
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