Emmanuel Macron’s petite crise
The unpopular president’s reforms exposed a deep discontent. The response to the pandemic has made his problems worse
Eliot’s editorial legacy
"The purpose of this magazine, and the sign of its intelligence, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind simultaneously"
Easter Sunday, 2020
Poetry by Rowan Williams
Bohemian rhapsodies
Caroline Maclean’s Circles and Squares reads like a roll-call of the artistic great and good of the interwar years — whose enterprise stands in stark relation to the mess of their private lives
A psychoanalyst’s lockdown diary
Emergencies not only spark new, rational fears but also reignite old, irrational ones
African reset: will Covid-19 bring change?
It is tempting to hope that ordinary people will rise up and demand change. But we are more likely to see poverty exacerbated