Society & Culture
Günter Grass and the German neurosis
19 Apr 2012
Maciej Zurowski looks at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie's attempt to cope with its past
Nothing less
31 Oct 1996
Crisis in education ... Punishing the wrong people
31 Oct 1996
Cane them or throw ’em out - moral guidance, capitalist style
Big two jump on populist bandwagon
24 Oct 1996
Conservative and Labour both claim the moral high ground - while preparing to hit the working class
Opt religion out
24 Oct 1996
Inhuman denial
24 Oct 1996
Mummified ideology
24 Oct 1996
Phil Rudge reviews Red square, black square - Organon for revolutionary imagination by Vladislav Todorov (1995, pp200)
For a genuinely human morality
17 Oct 1996
Jim Blackstock takes up the debate around child abuse
Unsaleable discovery
10 Oct 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Blinded by the sun by Stephen Poliakoff, directed by Ron Daniels (Cottosloe theatre, London)
Human contradiction
10 Oct 1996
From the debate surrounding the novels of Irvine Welsh, Phil Rudge argues that under today’s cultural conditions only artists who choose the lines of most resistance are able to even approach a committed literature
Royal repair job
10 Oct 1996
Alan Fox reviews The Queen by Ben Pimlott (Harper Collins, pp651)
Arbitrary ages
10 Oct 1996
Drowning world
03 Oct 1996
Helen Ellis reviews Ashes to ashes by Harold Pinter (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, at the Ambassadors, West Street, London)
State’s public order
03 Oct 1996
Arthouse humanity
26 Sep 1996
John Craig reviews Smoke, Directed by Wayne Wang (USA, 1996)
Radical pioneers
26 Sep 1996
Phil Watson reviews Beat, Rhymes and Life, by A Tribe called Quest (Jive CD)