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
Living the good life
The rising middle classes were decisive in shaping the late 19th century English town
Foul play
David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
