Italian
Crepuscular perfection
There’s a new Tuscan restaurant in town — and it’s a success
Requiem for a bad meal
Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin
Snook dazzles as Dorian Gray
Wilde’s preoccupation with beauty and artifice brings a sassy Victorian immorality tale into our own times
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
The Cass Review is not the end
Gender ideologues are not going to give up in the face of facts
Exhibiting military history
Four new exhibitions offer vivid insights into different experiences of war
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
No happy endings
Our worst sin has been to be weak, rather than merely to be wrong
Keep the cops out of our minds
Silent thoughts should never be prohibited
Miriam Cates is right about surrogacy
It is a fundamentally dishonest and exploitative practice
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
The crisis in the universities
A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education
