Culture
A pimp-led pyramid scheme
OnlyFans’s decision to remove porn creates a Catch-22 for those who are reliant on it
Monuments to victory and loss
This is a beautifully illustrated, handsomely printed and thorough, scholarly exposition of the triumphal arch
Sean Lock – the comedian’s comedian
Lock, who has died at the age of 58, was a popular figure on the UK comedy circuit — not bad for someone who described himself as “a miserable, authoritarian guy”
Trapped in a gilded cage
Women’s rights are far more precarious than we have been led to believe
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