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‘We are told that “we’re in this together” by people who can afford to wait out the epidemic in the way the aristocrats of old retreated to their estates when the plague arrived in the city. It is more accurate to say that we are, as this edition’s cover puts it, “together, alone”.’
The similarity between Charles Dickens and Armando Iannucci
The director’s new work, The Personal History of David Copperfield, is certainly brave
By Will Lloyd
From the Magazine
Difficult women
Marjane Satrapi, the author-director of Persepolis, tells Sarah Ditum about her Marie Curie biopic, exile from Iran and fears for the future of democracy
By Sarah Ditum
From the Magazine
Tom Stoppard in isolation
If it were not for the terrors surrounding us, this is the life I’ve always wanted — social distancing without social disapproval
By Tom Stoppard
From the Magazine
Are women worse navigators than men?
From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way by Michael Bond reviewed
By Sara Wheeler
From the Magazine
Mixed up math
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini reviewed
From the Magazine
Going both ways
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us About the Language of Science by
From the Magazine
What can we learn about coronavirus from classic cinema?
My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender
From the Magazine
Dedicated to literature
After Fault Lines, his acclaimed family history, David Pryce-Jones has written another kind of autobiography: Signatures, the memoirs of a bibliophile
From the Magazine
Joe Exotic is an ordinary American
He is perhaps a little too fond of drugs and weaponry, but he has also overcome great personal misfortune
From the Magazine
