Luxury Beliefs
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
The stench of Chanel No 5
Set mainly in Nazi-occupied Paris, The New Look tells the story of Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
TransForming London
You deserve to be inclusioned in London’s progressive future
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
Go woke, go broke?
The collapse of Vice Media is a story of an American left — aggressive, iconoclastic, irreverent — that no longer exists
Grandmasters: a meeting of great minds
Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene
Two sides of the weird frontier
The archly neutral now stands on the margins, looking out at a society of fear and outrage
Is Britain a Christian country?
The UK has an established religion alright — the worship of the self