The sound of love
Robert Schumann expresses the intense passion and despair of true love better than any other composer
Steam and cedar
How to moth-proof your carefully curated personal V&A
Spring into bling
Post-pandemic life is a party
How do you solve a problem like memoir?
A new book by Melissa Febos gets right to the heart of the genre
Labour of love
Spring is an essential time in wine production
The Cold War never ended
Does the West bear a share of the blame in bringing war to Ukraine?
Is cultural conservatism the key to educational success?
Culture beats race and even class when it comes to pupil performance
Save this Severn heaven
A property developer has an idyllic and precious plotland development in his sights
Young Stalin’s unlikely London holiday
Stephen May’s new novel is a triumph of historical fiction
The Critic Books Podcast: The Restless Republic
What happened in the decade Britain was without a monarch?
Turkish delight
Sir Simon Milton is one of the men who destroyed London
Why are there so few EU Rejoiners?
The case to re-join the EU is today much weaker than the case to remain was during the 2016 referendum