French Culture
A full Platée
A daring production of a daring work
A neglected radical
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière was an artistic and social pioneer
On Américanisation
French life is being transformed by the influence of American culture
The stories of a cemetery
There is much to learn about human life in a graveyard
J’adore les bleus
Antoine Dupont makes the game look easy
A study in radical rhetoric
We can disagree with Annie Ernaux’s politics while saying she deserves her Nobel Prize
Lost dream of coexistence
Adam LeBor delves into The Bureau, the utterly absorbing French spy thriller series
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Is Starmer the anti-Thatcher?
He does not have the right ambition and imagination
On the King’s Road to ruin
The decline of commerce on Chelsea’s celebrated street is a worrying sign for London
Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics
All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
The second life of Tracey Emin
A brush with death has revitalised her work
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
