Marcel Proust
Reynaldo Hahn: Poèmes & Valses (Hyperion)
This unfamiliar collection is the most enjoyable piano album of the year so far
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Shani Diluka: The Proust Album (Warner)
His concerto is a rag-and-bone man’s barrow trundling down a Haussmann boulevard
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
Pandæmonium
Better to reign in hell than serve in government
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
The triumph of Irish populism
The three major parties went with what is popular, rather than what is right
The death of an Anglo-Hungarian Painting
Nine months after a savage act of vandalism at Trinity College Cambridge, anger is growing at its lacklustre response
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
