Book review: Rural
This exploration of working-class life in the British countryside is a welcome corrective to industrial history
Culture
Book review: My Hijacking
Martha Hodes recalls the hijacking of her plane by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, more than fifty years ago
Book review: The God Desire
David Baddiel's new book on belief is witty and thought-provoking, but don't read it looking for answers
Book review: The Prince and the Plunder
Andrew Heavens tells the story of how Britain took one boy and piles of treasure from Ethiopia
The surprising history of British drag
A new book from Jacob Bloomfield explodes our expectations
In a word: Ivory tower
Michael Rosen's column on language and its uses
Book review: Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
This epic novel depicts the lives of the indigenous Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and their struggle for survival and justice over multiple generations
Why the Philip Guston exhibition caused a storm at the Tate
In art, as the shifting attitudes to Guston's work remind us, both form and content are political
Why is British television so obsessed with food?
Food dramas like "Lessons in Chemistry" and "The Bear" are appetising, but need more meat on the bone
Larkin’s generation game
First published in New Humanist in 1971, Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" has become a cultural phenomenon. But why?