Artillery Row
The unmaking of the Athenaeum
The venerable club is being spoiled by ideology
The sad reign of Ian Hislop
Appointed for his youth, he has become symbolic of cultural gerontocracy
Beyond the spires
Oxford is full of architectural riches
Album of the year
The best of an inspiringly musical 2023
Do not forget Armenia
Why has an act of blatant ethnic cleansing been widely ignored?
What’s missing in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro
The film should not have ignored the political and musical context to Bernstein’s life
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
The American decade
The 1990s marked post-Cold War triumph for the States, but choppy waters were ahead
The death of dystopia
Fictional nightmares can provide childish escapism rather than harsh truths