Culture

Suggestions that Donner was a director-for-hire rather than a true auteur are harsh and inaccurate

Hannah Betts finds a way to live with her pet hate — denim jeans

Readers should savour this book, as you might one of the delectable bottles that compose the enticing strophe of the book’s narrative

This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight

As the architect of austerity against culture and the arts, is the former Chancellor really the right man for the job?

There is a way to serve pasta and potatoes — with garlic

The Unbroken Thread is an engaging and entertaining read — but it feels like a project that’s only just beginning

Thanks to “critical theory”, the study of English literature has become overrun with boring academics who hardly inspire the next generation

Unfettered praise of Virginia Woolf as a “liberated writer” has paved the way for an inexplicably popular type of bad writing

Christopher Silvester on films of faith and the canonisation of three children’s divine visions