Artillery Row

A guide to the plangent lineaments of love

Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams

The man who reinvented India

On 99th anniversary of PV Narasimha Rao’s birth it is time to rehabilitate a traduced politician

A tribute to Owen Harries

In memoriam

Brideshead Revisited at 75

In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes

An essential record

Norman Lebrecht reviews Shostakovich: Violin concertos 1&2, performed by Alina Ibragimova and the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia

Cancel HBO

HBO Max’s cancelling of Gone With the Wind in the wake of George Floyd’s murder is outrageous, Paul du Quenoy writes

Saved for posterity

John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann

Into the lion’s mouth

Nigel Jones laments the rise of the British snitch

‘You’ll be a Man, my son!’

Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous poem “If” reverberates with valuably relevant and humane advice for 2020 Britain

Letter from Washington: Albert Murray and the case for complexity

A dissenting opinion in a revolutionary moment