Stuart Walton

Stuart Walton Writer of philosophy, cultural history and fiction, and restaurant critic for the UK's premier guide

Home truths from a talented poet.
08/05/2026

Home truths from a talented poet.

Review 31 is an online literary review.

How much wine is too much?
17/04/2026

How much wine is too much?

As the wine world grapples once again with a crisis of overproduction, Stuart Walton looks at the history of the wine glut.

Looking at the father of intoxication.
19/03/2026

Looking at the father of intoxication.

Stuart Walton explores the many and varied depictions of Dionysus (or Bacchus), the god of wine, through the history of art.

Dining with the Finns.
17/12/2025

Dining with the Finns.

Brave the Artic breeze and Helsinki’s dining scene makes for a delicious winter weekend away. Good Food Guide correspondent Stuart Walton explores its best markets, cheery bistros and high-concept counters, finding Finnish winter resilience plated with berries, reindeer and gold dust.

Whirling
27/08/2025

Whirling

From Dionysian and Sufi rituals, to Northern Soul and the tarantella, Stuart Walton loses himself in the transporting history of wine dance.

What we learn about changing attitudes to alcohol from the changing styles of self-portraits with wine.
23/06/2025

What we learn about changing attitudes to alcohol from the changing styles of self-portraits with wine.

Stuart Walton traces the evolving meanings of self-portraits with wine, from the Late Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century.

Pop history from the Marxist viewpoint.
13/06/2025

Pop history from the Marxist viewpoint.

Review 31 is an online literary review.

Wine at the dawn of cinema.
27/03/2025

Wine at the dawn of cinema.

Examples of early cinema such as the Lumière brothers’ Partie de Cartes remind us of the central significance of wine in French culture.

Not for the first time, Professor Freud appears not to know whereof he speaks.
25/02/2025

Not for the first time, Professor Freud appears not to know whereof he speaks.

Stuart Walton is troubled by a curious analogy between inebriation and erotic pleasure in a 1912 essay by Sigmund Freud.

On Alan Hollinghurst's new novel, Our Evenings.
06/12/2024

On Alan Hollinghurst's new novel, Our Evenings.

Review 31 is an online literary review.

Wine, plus a little something else.
21/11/2024

Wine, plus a little something else.

Stuart Walton explores the long strange history of the practice of adding other psychoactive substances to alcohol.

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