june 2020
june 2020

June 2020

‘We need a careful but determined uncoupling from China’s vast economy. When the COVID-19 crisis passes, America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest.’

Browse past editions

Consider the lilies

Peter Parker

Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Plants and People by Kasia Boddy reviewed
nineties

Ben Sixsmith

I hate the Nineties
peter bogdanovich

David Thomson

The rise and fall of Peter Bogdanovich
stupid-smart

Matt McDonald

The modern art of stupid-smart
count basie

Art June 1, 2020

Count my blessings

Meeting the inimitable Basie

Philip Terzian

war

Books June 1, 2020

Articles of War

In this excerpt from his autobiography Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime, David Pryce-Jones meets the survivors of the 20th century

David Pryce-Jones

blithe spirits

Books June 1, 2020

Bump in the night

Blithe Spirits: An Imaginative History of the Poltergeist by S.D. Tucker reviewed

Stephen Bayley

shape-note singing

Art June 1, 2020

The shape of things

On shape-note singing and my friend Stephen

Damian Thompson

rachel johnson

Books June 1, 2020

Rach’s progress

Rake’s Progress: My Political Midlife Crisis by Rachel Johnson reviewed

P.J. O’Rourke