James R. Flynn
Remembering James R. Flynn: scholar and free speech advocate
Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn
Music’s moral conscience
The violinist Gidon Kremer stands brilliantly apart from the rest of the music world
Let’s appreciate Wagner for Wagner
Politics and historical commentary aside, Lohengrin is currently on at Covent Garden
Getting wrecked
Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera dated quickly, but it hardly hurts to have another look at it
Time for us all to grow up
Why is the modern British novel so terribly earnest and irrepressibly juvenile?
New development will ruin the National Theatre
Make Architects’ disastrous plans risk destroying the character of the South Bank
Losing the generation game
The local elections reveal a bitter demographic conflict
De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Sex denialism helps nobody
Who is responsible for the backlash against women’s and LGBT rights?
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
The power of flags
Even in a material age, symbols matter
A vivid but oddly unresolved picture
This biography of Constable is but a partial portrait