Book Review
Dining out, dying out
Alexander Larman on William Sitwell’s luxurious history of eating out
An incomplete history of the Swinging Sixties
Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously
Melancholy of obsolete futures
Alexander Adams on Soviet Brutalism and where to read about it
A flawed analysis on the rise of transnational authoritarianism
György Schöpflin on Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy
Footnoting the Belfast Agreement’s invisible annex
Owen Polley reviews Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland by Feargal Cochrane
White Supremacists: Anti-racists need you!
Ewa Dymek & Mateusz Dymek review Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
A guide to the plangent lineaments of love
Matthew Adams reviews The Liar’s Dictionary, by Eley Williams
Saved for posterity
John Bowers reviews Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries, by Rebecca Abrams and Cesar Merchan-Hamann
Days in the life of the Fab Four
Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
The Windsor Framework must fall so that Brexit can live
The EU (Withdrawal Arrangements) Bill can restore the integrity of the United Kingdom
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
“Trope” is not a synonym of “lie”
You cannot dismiss an argument by calling it a trope
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
