Book Review
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France