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The Analyst

One big thing the legacy media gets wrong: Analysis is not “opinion”

by Noah Smith | Apr 7, 2025

Every year, I write one navel-gazing post about what I do for a living. Past instalments include “Noah Smith’s writing advice”, “How to write a successful Substack”, “How to be an opinion writer”, and “The biggest advantage of op-ed writers”. I expect that the next post will be about how to...

The Professor

Nobel Laureate in Literature 2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah

by Paul Lowden | Aug 14, 2023

“But what’s it about?” The common question that haunts many writers is one where their audience wants an incredibly complex creation like a novel reduced to a few – sometimes...

Investor's Notebook

John Ryley’s Nineteen Eighty-Four

by John Ryley | Jul 31, 2023

After 39 years working as a journalist, and 17 years as the head of Sky News, John Ryley retired in May. In a series of articles for The Property Chronicle he reflects on how the...

The Storyteller

The Deer Hunter (1978)

by T.A. Cotterell | Jul 24, 2023

Michael Cimino’s magisterial, but flawed, Vietnam War epic was released into theatres only three years after Operation Frequent Wind, the chaotic Saigon airlift that sealed the...

The Storyteller

A lovely lunch last week in New Haven

by Garrison Keillor | Jul 17, 2023

I had lunch last week with a woman who is two months away from motherhood and it was sweet to watch her caressing the basketball under her blouse, patting it, lifting it...

Uncorked

The 2022 Bordeaux

by Mark Roberts | Jul 10, 2023

“Remarkable, miraculous, and truly exceptional vintage.” Not my words, nor those of a Bordeaux château owner, typically bigging up their property’s new wine. No, the very erudite...

The Historian

1215: King John and Magna Carta

by David L. Smith | Jul 2, 2023

Few documents in the history of the world have achieved as iconic a status as Magna Carta. It remains one of the best-known documents in British history, and its influence has...

Investor's Notebook

The European Super League has not gone away…

by Ed Warner | Jun 26, 2023

Don't dismiss the ESL so lightly. And IOC should poll not pontificate. ‘Laughable’, ‘all hot air’, ‘flimsy’, a ‘walking corpse’. So has English football, on a mostly...

The Storyteller

Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

by Sabina Reeves | Jun 12, 2023

Literary critic Edmund Wilson posed just this question in a 1945 edition of New Yorker magazine. He was being disingenuous. He didn’t care one jot for Agatha Christie’s wildly...

The Storyteller

The Debt Deal

by Garrison Keillor | Jun 5, 2023

O FRABJOUS DAY! CALLOOH, CALLAY! The debt limit deal takes an enormous load off my mind; weeks of worrying about what we’d do when the economy crashed, and we lose everything and...