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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’
The Fate Of The West
A lecture by Daniel Johnson
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past