Culture

Graham Stewart talks to Alex Story and Robert Wigley about the dangers of our addiction to digital information

Radio drama is prone to over-signalling regional differences, says Anne McElvoy

This biography on Sir Stanley Rous and sport in the twentieth century is scholarly, balanced and well-written, says Lincoln Allison

Professor Jeremy Black discusses with Graham Stewart the craft and value of the political diarist

T.V. show, The Repair Shop, is just what we need in these dark and fractured times, says Adam LeBor

Do we really need another biography about Francis Bacon? The answer is emphatically yes, says Christopher Bray

The rambling and discursive nature of the writing lends Rupert Everett’s book an enjoyable appeal

The magazine that declares its main aim is to review books does anything but

Christopher North joins the devoted cult of the elegant, enigmatic bullfighter José Tomás

Dominic Hilton reminisces about his father’s hoard of bizarre avant-garde CDs, LPs and cassette tapes