A full stop in Sussex
Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub
The “mulatto” Queen
Lisa Hilton debunks a growing myth about a monarch’s consort
Not drinking but drowning
Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future
High old time
Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
How secularism can save us from the social justice movement
The social justice movement resembles a religion. It should be treated as such
High Drama on the Podium
Norman Lebrecht on the late, great Mariss Jansons who died on December 1st
Cancel the Turner
It looks like it was made by artists who don’t like art and chosen by judges who don’t either
Good companions
Brigitte Macron agitated to be granted the title of Première Dame, hoping to emulate not Yvonne de Gaulle but Jackie Kennedy
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
Tom’s ghostly debut
X.Trapnel on the latest publishing politics