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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’
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts