Features
Return of the 60s neurosis
Christopher Booker’s stinging takedown of the 1960s, The Neophiliacs, is even more relevent today
Stalin’s last laugh
Joseph Stalin has been recast in Russia not as a bloodsoaked tyrant, but as a strong, effective leader
Is classical colonial?
Naive proposals to “decolonise” Western classical music risk losing the richness of its history
Blueprint for a starchitect
Robert A. M. Stern’s approach to designing buildings combines exuberance with historicism
Real social responsibility
Be wary of companies with public sector monkeys and a diversity officer on the board
Guardians of our culture
Conservative America still vibrantly upholds the cause of Western civilisation
Virginia Woolf: Teflon goddess of the trivial
She was nasty, crude, racist and often a poor writer — so why is she revered?
De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations
A singular modern master
Architect John Outram fused high-tech and tradition to create his own unique style
Bookshops remaindered
The second-hand book trade has lost much of its romance and charm, not to mention eccentric establishments and their owners