Gimme sculpture: new statues of Jagger and Richards are a dud – but here are eight of Britain’s best
Bronze statues of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, unveiled last week in Dartford, are not a high point
July 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 books by neglected female thinkers
You might not hear much about it if you study philosophy, but this rich intellectual tradition is centuries old and often more open to the mess of life than its male counterpart
May 2023
A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants
The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce
November 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 books about unlikely revolutionaries
Novels by Richard Powers and Colson Whitehead, and polemics by Rachel Carson and Mary Wollstonecraft show how ideas and words can change the world
May 2021
Yorkshire church to install stone carvings celebrating women
Medieval St Mary’s in Beverley to install nine historical figures including Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Seacole
December 2020
Mary Wollstonecraft statue becomes one of 2020's most polarising artworks
Maggi Hambling’s north London sculpture aimed to provoke debate – and a survey of passersby shows it has certainly done that
Book of the day
Wollstonecraft by Sylvana Tomaselli review – trailblazing feminist
A fine portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft as an Enlightenment intellectual neglects the complexity of her views on the ‘oppression of my sex’
'There are plenty of schlongs in art' – Maggi Hambling defends her nude sculpture of Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft and Woolf deserve statues. But do they represent women like me?
Claire Hynes
In these days of scrolling and outrage, have we lost our ability to discuss art?
Sam Byers
November 2020
Notebook
Poor Mary Wollstonecraft – reduced to a Pippa doll with pubic hair
Rachel Cooke
‘I need complete freedom’: Maggi Hambling responds to statue critics
The Week in Patriarchy
Deutsche Bank’s pandemic solution? To make you pay for your privilege
Arwa Mahdawi
Virginia Woolf statue fundraiser flooded with donations after Wollstonecraft controversy
Honouring the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft
'Insulting to her': Mary Wollstonecraft sculpture sparks backlash
Why I hate the Mary Wollstonecraft statue: would a man be 'honoured' with his schlong out?
Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years
October 2020
Historic England takes London 'birthplace of feminism' off at-risk list
Church that was hotbed of 18th century radicals is one of 181 sites no longer endangered
July 2019
Publisher accused of 'ripping off' best-selling book on racism
Ben Lindsay’s We Need To Talk About Race has similar cover and title to prizewinning book by Reni Eddo-Lodge
