racoon
Eat on the wild side
A lamentation on the bland American diet
Three novelists pushing the bloat out
Some novels still dare to leave the reader’s hand unheld — without universal success
Alastair Campbell’s gender neutral nonsense
Alastair Campbell might not care about single-sex spaces, but women do
California dreaming
The delight of discovering an affordable California blend
Loony tunes
Opera begs leave to celebrate lunacy in a different way
A monumental work on British buildings
Gavin Stamp’s posthumous book is a magnificent tour d’horizon, a bible of the styles available to architects between the wars
The brighter side of German Expressionism
The expressionists breathed fresh life into familiar subjects
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
The untalented Mx. Ripley
In a story of a fiendishly successful performance, Eliot Sumner proved an extremely unconvincing man
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
