Can communal beliefs be reconciled with empirical facts?

One of the unexpected outcomes of being a literary agent is that it means I am in the privileged position of knowing exactly how tough it is to forge a career with your pen. As a result, it is always

Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...

An encounter in the hospital waiting room

The arts sector has long been unthinkingly in thrall to the supposedly “progressive” left but a coherent, coordinated, conservative strategy could, and should, shift the consensus

Claire Jackson’s opinions on Brahms (Hero or Hype?; August) resonated with me. I studied his First Symphony for O-Level, and his Fourth for A-Level. Then at college, my piano teacher insisted I learn