Susanna Clarke
Dividing Germany
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart talk about the emergence of rival Germanys after the Second World War
Timelessness trumps timely
What we have is pure storytelling delight, a page-turner that works forwards and backwards as the reader fills in the gaps
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Exilic yearnings
Miklos Rozsa: violin concerto (LSO Live)
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
A macabre sense of humour
Ligeti, Bartok: String quartets (BIS)
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Am I prepared to help my mum die?
Euthanasia poses impossible questions about life and death
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful