Arts
Why "How Do You Cope...?" is a mental health podcast actually done right
Plus: Why you should be listening to The Slowdown and Ctrl Alt Delete
Why we need religion
Stephen Asma, an agnostic, argues powerfully that religion is natural and beneficial. Is it such a leap to believe that it is grounded in truth?
The best theatre in December 2019—Spassky vs Fischer at Hampstead Theatre and the Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida
Plus Gypsy at the Royal Exchange
Clive James (1939-2019): his final Late Reading column
The author Clive James has died aged 80. In his final Prospect piece written earlier this month, he mused on the joy of an M&S pudding—and on the joyful courage of the morbid joke
Countdown, and the joy of the basic horror film
It's a film about an app that tells you when you're going to die. By rights, it should be awful. And yet...
The creative industries are hurting, not helping artists—we need a new model
A holdover from Tony Blair's "Cool Britannia" vision, the New Labour invention has turned its back on what makes art great
The best art exhibitions in summer 2019—Antony Gormley and the undead Bauhaus
Plus Barry Flanagan at the Ikon Gallery
Alasdair Gray's literary socialism
The master of improper arts talks Jane Austen, the NHS, and why he's losing faith in an independent Scotland
Watch: Prospect Book Club—Sameer Rahim on “Asghar and Zahra”
This month your usual host turns guest to discuss the themes in his debut novel
Clive James on saving figure skating—and why poet Les Murray should have won the Nobel
When I first read Les Murray's poetry, an unfamiliar feeling of humility overwhelmed me
The best opera and classical in July 2019—the Proms and Noye’s Fludde
Plus Die Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne
The hidden lives behind the Bauhaus movement
Though often understood as a rigid cult of technocrats, the Bauhaus movement was a romantic tag of avant-gardists whose influence persists to this day