Professor Jeremy Black on how Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire found themselves fighting together in the Crimea

Magritte’s work is no more socially potent than dog-mess on a doorstep

Gatsby aside, F. Scott Fitzgerald — the Jazz-Age chronicler — is dispensable

Pitchfork was one of a whole ecosystem of taste-making blogs which laid claim to being the ones who had made del Rey

Art that shocks, offends, and amuses has a purpose beyond aesthetic: its existence is a testament to freedom of expression

Christopher Silvester on two extraordinary films from Eastern Europe shown at the London Film Festival

The transgressive, transmedial and transnational nature of the Gothic genre

British musical theatre has nothing on the American slickness

Lisa Hilton enjoys a Thai feast that shows that fiery and exotic has now become mainstream

The Critic Narrated: Episode Four, with Lisa Hilton, Henry Hill and our Secret Author