How Meghan Markle wins the White House
In October, Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, made her most significant political intervention to date. She marked her fortieth…
Dave Eggers cancels Amazon
Selling books through Amazon is now part and parcel of a working author’s life. It would be a brave writer…
Did the music industry enable R. Kelly?
As Harvey Weinstein was to film, so Robert ‘R.’ Kelly has been to the music industry. An energetic and profligate…
The smug self-satisfaction of the Met Gala
Oscar Wilde said, of the death of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop, that ‘you would have to have…
The joy of rummaging through Gladstone’s annotated books
Gladstone’s Library began as that most English of things: a great man’s visionary idea. William Gladstone, at the age of…
Seaham Hall
I’m standing in milady’s boudoir, a room which would have delighted Liberace. Here, nothing is de trop and everything is…
