Fredric Smoler
ONLINE ONLY: Situation Normal
Generation Kill, its critics and the messy reality of war
ONLINE ONLY: Down the Wrong Mean Streets
Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
ONLINE ONLY: Genius in the Streets
The Wire may be the best television ever made, but is it truly Dickensian?
ONLINE ONLY: Furst Principles
The mysterious appeal of Alan Furst’s ‘historical espionage’ novels
ONLINE ONLY: A Pacifist at Hitler’s Side
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?