3+ hour, 5+ min ago  (770+ words) The Spectator Australia How the paralysed Franz Rosenzweig continued to translate the Bible After being struck down by a neurodegenerative disease at the age of 36, the inspirational scholar pursued his biblical project with the twitch of one thumb University of…...

14+ hour, 41+ min ago  (759+ words) The Spectator Australia HBO Max isn't worth subscribing to HBO Max is the latest streaming channel trying to lure you into yet another of those "10 a month subscription contracts you only remember having signed up for about three years later…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago  (749+ words) The Spectator Australia An outstanding Turn of the Screw Royal Academy of Music Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, and touring until 21 May Never let it be said that The Spectator fails to follow up an arts story. Long-term readers will recall that…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago  (555+ words) The Spectator Australia Defiantly creative to the end: the transgressive Dorothea Tanning Born in Illinois in 1910 in the middle of a hurricane, the experimental Surrealist became the model of the fiercely independent artist I received this book for review on…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago  (294+ words) I heard about it from my friend Dan Hannan shortly after I became a peer, and immediately put my name down, imagining it to be a massive freebie. Not so. The Graubunden canton provides you with a free lift pass,…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago  (624+ words) It was when I was staying recently with the Frums in D. C. that, for a dizzying moment, I thought my life-long quest had ended. Nasa can fly us a quarter of a million miles to circumnavigate the moon but nobody has…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago  (233+ words) When a 13-year-old girl announces that she's really a boy, talk therapy should be the first line of defence The Conservative government commissioned Coventry University to explore the prevalence of this practice and the subsequent report noted: "Aversive techniques were…...

14+ hour, 41+ min ago  (840+ words) The Spectator Australia Do you suffer from "excited delirium syndrome? Hadiza Atunse, a 25-year-old PA, smashed her Toyota Auris into a Mini Cooper, spun out of control and flipped into a hedgerow in Wilmslow, near Manchester. When the coppers turned…...

14+ hour, 41+ min ago  (1050+ words) The Spectator Australia The only "civilisation" Trump will destroy is his own If, as Donald Trump had threatened, "a whole civilisation" had died on Tuesday night, the whole civilisation concerned would have been that of the United States, not of…...

18+ hour, 41+ min ago  (247+ words) Yann Martel, the author of Beatrice and Virgil and Life of Pi, typically explores competing storylines, narrative reliability and the nature of truth. His new novel, Son of Nobody, pursues these themes in a first-person account written by a scholar…...