Ainsworth’s fate was sealed not how he wrote but what he placed at the heart of his stories

Stoddard Martin delves into a world beyond police and courtroom, with its own code of right and wrong, in Gerald Jacobs’s Pomeranski

A brilliant, ambitious volume of art history — but physically difficult to read

Any history of the 1960s that neglects mass culture is not to be taken entirely seriously

Is pedestrianisation the way to reopen Soho?

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

A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed

The Old Vic’s abolition of women’s toilets is an outrage

Criticism has died at London’s newspaper