Arts
Ripley returns
Rejoice, Ripley is back! But why are we so drawn to Patricia Highsmith’s anti-hero?
Can the arts world learn to love the Tories?
As the Government injects 1.57bn into arts and culture, Alexander Larman considers the reactions from those in the industry
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
To the streets, via the Crush Bar
Robert Thicknesse on Opera
Mystery of the tainted cache
The Gurlitt affair looked as if it might be unpicked but it has proved intractable
Culture Shutdown
Can the arts survive coronavirus?
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
Adventures in La-La Land
Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose
Brief encounters and romps in the park
George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success
Thoughts on the BBC: Reflections of a conservative historian
Jeremy Black ponders the place of the BBC
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
Sex workers and Covid-19
What the virus means for Britain’s least protected self-employed
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
The beauty of Brutalism
Durham’s concrete masterpiece needs love, not the wrecking ball
Lords of the ring
Christopher North says while matadors come and go, pedigree fighting bulls remain
Was Plácido a pest?
Domingo is far from the monster that America’s #MeToo movement has made of him