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Flawed primer on a Classical master
A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect
5 Live’s cull of the cultured
There has been a revolution in the beeb’s sports coverage
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
Drop your weapons
Knives Out deserves a reprieve from the dread of bad sequels
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
The genius that was Dr Strangelove
Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death
Go west, young man
Terry Gilliam holds court in exile
The Critic Books Podcast: Marianne Moore
In conversation with Heather Cass White: Moore’s editor
The rise of the bimbo
Being intentionally thick is not a feminist act
Too stupid for the truth
Lying to the public “for their own good” spells the end of democracy