Tangled up in the myth of Dylan
Age hasn’t withered Dylan. He was always running towards it, arms open wide.
Rehabilitation of a great stylist
Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves
Gloriously bad company
Do we really need another biography about Francis Bacon? The answer is emphatically yes, says Christopher Bray
Peculiar world of a singular talent
Highsmith was a great writer, with a moral vision bracing enough to clarify the terrors of the twentieth century
Bedtime reading for boomers
You will search in vain for a new life of any rocker who made his name after the advent of punk
Derrida deconstructed
Derrida’s prose, which stops being turgid only in order to be turbid, is utterly incomprehensible
Time flies, relatively speaking
The older you are, the quicker you count out a minute
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
The jokes must go on
Christopher Bray reviews Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
Mass-goer who glorified mass production
Christopher Bray reviews Warhol by Blake Gopnik
A series of sharp transactions
Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears
Winning by inches or losing by miles?
The Scottish Conservatives self-congratulation is delusional. They have not stopped the SNP.
Beethoven/Schnittke: Violin concertos (BIS)
This fabulous interpretation of the Beethoven concerto is one of the records of the year
Risky business
When it comes to booking a holiday abroad, we need to protect our right to take risks and make our own decisions
Regulating the afterlife of Ministers
In light of the Greenshill Affair, John Bowers explains how Lord Pickles should lead the advisory committee
The perils of artivism
No space for art: how the ICA has been using public generosity to promote political activism
Stonewall’s war on women
Olivia Hartley and Julie Bindel discuss how the LGBT charity is putting women last
Bursting Boris’s bubble
Labour has found an attack line that has the benefit of being true
Ivy Leagues ahead
Hannah Betts goes preppy in penny loafers and Ralph Lauren
Follow the money
We need to reset the overseas development aid discussion