I would cavil at the curse of the presenter monologue, tending to sway the audience one way or the other, reveals Anne McElvoy

Inspired by Withnail and I, Christopher Pincher delves into fine sherry

Michael Prodger tracks the story of a lost masterpiece

Sarah Ditum says that the focus on Timberlake as a bad agent conveniently forgets the machine behind him

Christopher Bray thinks Roth’s “novelist’s autobiography” is one of his most fizzing examinations of the stories that construct our various selves

Robert Thicknesse reveals how in searching for meaning, opera adaptations are becoming more obscure

Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate

Bullfighting was a lifelong fascination for Francis Bacon and played an increasingly important role in his work, his high-risk approach matching that of the matador

Baddiel is concerned in this short, polemical book with Jews being “left out”

Government plans to send undercover police into nightclubs are absurd and destructive