Culture
The ecstasy and the agony
Paul du Quenoy reviews The Club King, Peter Gatien’s memoir of New York nightlife
Sex and violence: Titian’s Metamorphoses
The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July
Age cannot wither them: has the casting of Ian McKellen as Hamlet gone too far?
Does age-blind casting work when adapting Shakespeare?
Soho, Soho, it’s off to walk we go…
Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?
Art Attack
Does culture have a future in the post-lockdown world?
When in Romania…
Christopher Pincher explores the Wine Ambassador restaurant and emporium in Bucharest
Should we listen to writers about their own work?
As Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads is set to air this evening, Alexander Larman ponders the relationship between a living writer and their works
Sebastian Horsley: equal parts Byronic dandy, Dickensian grotesque and Wildean poseur
Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death
Watching the Riots: Berlin, Trilling and Bellow on the Sixties
The riots of the 1960s left a generation of intellectuals out in the cold. Will the George Floyd demonstrations do the same?
What the Dickens!
150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The hollowness of postliberalism
Its vagueness and sentimentality encourage political opportunism
The tragedy of Radio 3
The centenary “celebration” of the BBC Singers summed up everything that has gone wrong
The nurseryfication of culture
Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness
Fair pay is a fiction
Public sector workers are chasing a fantasy
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
Keir’s woetanical garden
Labour still don’t understand the scale of the reforms that are needed
Keeping your head may just save your soul
Hyperreality meets holocaust denial in the insanity of the social media age
