Hype
When the hype becomes the story
As Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light is released this week, Alexander Larman examines the over-excitement of high-profile releases
Profile: Noam Chomsky
The American linguistics professor who is forever at odds with his country
Venice’s tortuous tourist tax
How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Eyes on the prizes
On a dispiriting start to racing’s “Premierisation” era
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Nationalised bedtime?
The nanny state is not the solution for the problem of irresponsible parenting
Ukraine’s cross-cultural contradictions
Has Ukraine overcome its legacy of historical antisemitism?
What the public think about the Rwanda Plan
Sunak is heading for a make or break vote for his government
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches