Culture

Cities risen from ashes

75 years after the Dresden bombings, Lincoln Allison discusses the raising of razed cities

Artillery Row
Oscars so woke?

Predictability and cyclical trends at the 92nd Academy Awards

Artillery Row
A belly full of agitpropera

Opera really doesn’t need the help of activist directors when it comes to politics — it’s all there already

On Opera
A full stop in Sussex

Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub

Eating Out
Black to basics

Hannah Betts on the colour with which you can’t go wrong

Fashion
Terroir to his toes

Christopher Pincher on the warming tones and redcurrant taste of Pernand-Vergelesses Les Fichots

On Wine
Non-nose job

In a free reworking of “Cyrano”, it takes pizzazz to rewrite French alexandrines in the manner of Eminem

On Theatre
The toughest role

The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”

On Cinema
Don’t mention the war, or Alf Garnett

The ‘offensive’ TV landmarks censored from Britain’s answer to Netflix

Artillery Row
An adult view of monarchy

The artistic achievement of ‘The Crown’ has been undervalued

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