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Bib Brother
The Michelin Guide is arcane, self-serious and totally nonsensical. Even the chefs themselves can’t workout the star system. And yet, we can’t bear to break away from it.
29 July 2024
The Drugs Don’t Work
A general practitioner in Glasgow unpacks how the hand-in-glove relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS has changed – for the worse.
27 June 2024
Failure to Turn
The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
26 January 2024
Elder States, Man
To spend your life online is to live at one remove from reality – stand back too far, and you might find the years speeding by before your eyes.
19 January 2024
An Apology for January
Dry January, winter blues, seasonal affective disorder – all in the mind. January’s a great month if you know what to do with it.
12 January 2024
The Chic Young Divorcée
Making a swift 180 down the aisle.
19 December 2023
Lost in the Woods
Guy Shrubsole’s schemes have the potential to unleash havoc in the British countryside.
18 April 2023
The Julian Fellowes Benevolent Fund
Our reporter examines the decline and fall of the UK film industry. (Sorry about all the italics.)
18 April 2023Most Popular
The Chic Young Divorcée
Making a swift 180 down the aisle.
19 December 2023
The State of Nature
A classic treatise against men writing about the natural world.
7 December 2020
Conversations with Friends about Sally Rooney
An epistolary inquiry into the zeitgeist, the novels, the publishers and me.
2 March 2020Failure to Turn
The majordomo of literary non-fiction meditates upon his mortality, his ear hair, and his complicated feelings toward the oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino.
26 January 2024