Culture
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
Yardbird: 100 Years of Charlie Parker
Dominic Green looks at the immortality of jazz saxophonist, Charlie Parker
Rail tracks
Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ at 40: A book that can change your life
Alexander Larman recalls the glee and disbelief at one of literature’s most beguilingly horrible figures
Democratic capitalism on holiday: the buffet
Is the sophisticated joy of the buffet coming to an end?
Can theatres survive the crisis? And should they?
How can theatres come out of this, asks Alexander Larman
Strength and honour: looking back on 20 years of Gladiator
Are you not entertained?!
What does ‘decolonising the curriculum’ mean?
And what is oligarch money doing to the art world?