May 2020

‘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

Sara Wheeler

Books May 1, 2020

Mixed up math

The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini reviewed

Michael Barany

Books May 1, 2020

Going both ways

The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us About the Language of Science by

Philip Hensher

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

David Pryce-Jones

Books May 1, 2020

Making a killing

The Celestial Hunter by Roberto Calasso reviewed

Dominic Green

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

James Delingpole