Tuscan
Crepuscular perfection
There’s a new Tuscan restaurant in town — and it’s a success
Who edits the editor?
The bright young things of publishing want to be involved in every line of every new book
“Problematic” art
This kind of adolescent tripe passes these days for thought
The coddlin’ of the British dance
How Britain’s anarchic rave scene turned authoritarian
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
Death of the model railway?
Not so fast — this is one railway network Beeching can’t cut, and its built of life long fascination
Disposable women?
Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change
How dark can humour be?
Laughter — even laughter about morbid things — is part of what makes us human
Scratches in the stonework of history
A new history of graffiti and rebellion is less light and bawdy than one may have expected
Ferrari and the terrible joy
Michael Mann’s Ferrari shows how ambiguity and contradiction fuels us
Parklife people
This book has a brilliant premise but, frustratingly, it doesn’t quite work