The Critic Podcast

When the first Christians began proclaiming Christ crucified and risen, they landed a missile in the foundations of ancient paganism. Something had occurred which rendered the belief systems of that world utterly obsolete.

A vast global market in stolen and forged art and artefacts has only grown in the context of the pandemic, but technology and international policing may be catching up

Empty shelves need not mean dreary eating

Mary Beard emerges with a portrait of the emperors’ afterlives as vivid as the busts themselves

The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in