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Bachelor
A new Chicago short story by Joseph Epstein
The Royal Academy in Burlington Gardens
The opening of the Royal Academy’s new building will give it back its original intellectual intent, as a place of thinking about art as well as exhibiting it
The righteous and the Right
Thoughts on the survival of Western civilisation
Five poems
Five new poems from Rebecca Alexander
Five poems
Five new poems from Spain by Fiona Pitt-Kethley
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke: a new translation
A new translation by Timothy Watson
The End of the Lazars
A new short story.
Self-Deception
“The weather in early November was cool enough for me to start a fire. We settled in. Old friends. Cosy. “Have any of you heard of a game called Self-Deception?” Ellie Kaplan asked.”
New Poetry
New poetry by Grey Gowrie, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, and Amy Barone
Cultural Climate Change
‘The West had three master narratives: Westernisation, secularisation and
accommodation. But today each one of them is breaking down’
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal