Culture
Lover, muse, artist
The aim of this new biography is to re-establish this undeservedly overlooked artist
Alice Sara Ott: Echoes of Life (DG)
Alice Sara Ott gives Frederic Chopin’s preludes a “dazzling” contemporary twist
A classic work of unbridled joy
This is the best popular edition ever produced of one of the most amusing books in our language
The Day of the Jackal: fifty years on
Alexander Larman remembers one of the most exciting, page-turning novels ever written
The G&S divide
A large proportion of the English drive themselves mad with a baroque cocktail of fury, snobbery and self-hatred over Gilbert and Sullivan
Impossible things before breakfast
At the V&A the lines between madness and sanity are blurred
Bumptious, bitchy and belligerent
This evocation of London literati in wartime is a bombshell of a first book
Shostakovich: Piano concertos 1&2; piano trio 2 (Linn)
This is a recording that encapsulates the other, older side of Europe
Boris Bunter
Is our Prime Minister the Fat Owl of the Government?
Angels, demons and videotape
What American journalism’s “teaching moments” teach us about American journalism