‘We are told that “we’re in this together” by people who can afford to wait out the epidemic in the way the aristocrats of old retreated to their estates when the plague arrived in the city. It is more accurate to say that we are, as this edition’s cover puts it, “together, alone”.’
Books May 1, 2020
Are women worse navigators than men?
From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way by Michael Bond reviewed
Books May 1, 2020
Mixed up math
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini reviewed
Books May 1, 2020
Going both ways
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us About the Language of Science by
Art May 1, 2020
What can we learn about coronavirus from classic cinema?
My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender
Books May 1, 2020
Dedicated to literature
After Fault Lines, his acclaimed family history, David Pryce-Jones has written another kind of autobiography: Signatures, the memoirs of a bibliophile
Art May 1, 2020
Joe Exotic is an ordinary American
He is perhaps a little too fond of drugs and weaponry, but he has also overcome great personal misfortune