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
Modi's myopia and indifference to the poor
Lockdown has exposed rifts in Indian society between the urban middle classes and those excluded from ‘civil’ society
Eliot’s editorial legacy
“The purpose of this magazine, and the sign of its intelligence, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind simultaneously”
‘When freedom came, God disappeared’
One of Roger Scruton’s last works, an opera libretto set in Eastern Europe, contains some of his most revelatory thinking on the divine