Sarah Ditum says that the focus on Timberlake as a bad agent conveniently forgets the machine behind him

Lisa Hilton says tapas are over-hyped, over-priced and have overstayed their welcome

Andrew Roberts says that in these diaries, Channon takes snobbery to a truly pathological level

Lisa Hilton asks whether Twitter mobs should be able to police the imagination of novelists and playwrights

Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves

Robert Thicknesse reveals how in searching for meaning, opera adaptations are becoming more obscure

Pike abound in British rivers yet are seldom caught for the table

Christopher Silvester reveals how this biography of Robert Maxwell is a skilfully constructed page-turner

Norman Lebrecht says an affair with Coco Chanel did Stravinsky’s PR, and hers, no harm at all

W. Sydney Robinson, the historian’s latest biographer, discovered that his subject was without scruple in matters of the heart