Mark Le Fanu
Mark Le Fanu teaches world cinema at UCL. His most recent book is Believing n Film: Christianity and Classic European Cinema (I.B. Tauris)
Art in Paris under Covid
Mark Le Fanu goes to the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Marmottan, and the Musée Antoine Bourdelle
The literal gaze of James Tissot
An exhibition of the work of the 19th century painter James Tissot has opened in Paris
An adult view of monarchy
The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The deep wisdom of rootedness
Society has lost touch with the people and places who helped to shape it in the first place
Fear the Keir
Starmer is Blair 2.0 — but this time, things can only get worse
The quaintness of the campaign against public schools
The abuse was terrible but its relevance to modern politics is dubious
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Where has all the money gone?
Even Booker Prize-winning novelists struggle to make a living from writing
W.S. Gilbert
A wildly funny and slyly subversive comic genius who deftly skewered the mores of Victorian England
The disingenuous anti-vax blame game
People have short memories about the MMR scare
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air