Book Review

The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat

A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud

Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation

Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose

The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust

Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners

Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions

A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious

The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind

Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France