ONLINE ONLY: Radical Chic and the Corruption of Art
Critics may be heralding the end of contemporary art as we know it, but nothing will change as long as artists worry about how
The Swindler and the Swindled
In chess one should never take one's opponent in trust: it leaves one open to the swindle
The Old Men Who Made Paint Itself Expressive
It is rare for great artists to keep producing well into old age. Two biographies of Titian and Cézanne reveal masters who saved their
Bombarded By White Noise
Camille Paglia's Glittering Images is a bewildering nightmare of frenzied distraction, precisely the modern condition the author hoped to combat
Elegy to a Country’s Church
The Church of England is part of this country's identity and the key to its past, according to Roger Scruton in his superb new
On Her Majesty’s Silver Service
In Serving Victoria Kate Hubbard has produced a wonderful, anecdote-laden account of what it would have been like to work for the great Queen
The Tiger Under the Table
Founder of Singapore, emancipator of slaves, discoverer of the world's smelliest flower: Stamford Raffles comes alive in Victoria Glendinning's biography
The Barrister and the Bomb
Geoffrey Robertson's latest target is nuclear Iran. But his new book looks through the prism of "legal architectures" and so cannot offer real suggestions