Artillery Row

The asexual lingerie model and other modern mysteries

Why sex-positivity is anti-sex

The end of the story

Boris may escape punishment, but he will still have to answer to the public

Wedlocked

Why the Government squeamishness on mentioning marriage?

Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket

The art of introspection

This gathering of Van Gogh’s self-portraits is as unsettling as it is impressive

Alexander Scriabin: Mazurkas (Hyperion)

Rediscovering the patriarch of Russian piano composition

Pardonable sensationalism

Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics

More human than the humanists

Church attendance is on the rise among non-Christian, non-believing millennials

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