From Brick Lane to Brixton
Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
The death of luxury
When did we all decide to stop travelling, and living, in style?
’Verse averse
The idea that there are multiple universes and that it might be possible to “‘versejump” is surely one way of explaining the cinematic urge
Is Liz Truss Thatcherite?
She wants to change our circumstances rather than manage them
Kurt Weill: 2nd symphony, violin concerto (Somm)
A beautiful recording of an esoteric item
The American nightmare
Rakib’s Britain: America’s toxic racial politics cannot be allowed to take root in Britain
Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer
Death of a sporting hero
Lester Piggott was the greatest jockey — bar none
The war for warmth
Russia is sending General Winter west
The creation of the trans child
Cheap mysticism posing as care
Old tunes remastered
Penny, Liz and Boris — still rocking the political moshpit