Boom time for Picasso Inc.
February 25, 2019
One name dominates the art market, with his paintings soaring in value and remaining a solid investment
Rulers ruled by a sense of history
February 25, 2019
"Christopher Clark's subject is neither time nor power, but something even more evanescent: how those who wielded power were influenced by their sense of
The man who went off script
February 25, 2019
In her lively and readable biography, Adina Hoffman charts Ben Hecht’s progress from America’s most successful screenwriter to Jewish activist
The iPhone, not the I Ching
February 25, 2019
"What exactly is China anyway? Is it a civilisation, as some claim? Or a “civilisation state”, with unique cultural markers but within set borders?"
Illiberal and irrelevant
February 25, 2019
"Francis Green and David Kynaston do not like private schools. They think the government should do something to stop children attending them. Why? You
Daddy, I hardly knew you
February 25, 2019
Linn Ullmann's novel Unquiet interweaves her childhood with conversations with her father Ingmar Bergman — a work of both memory and imagination
The art of survival in Nazi Germany
February 25, 2019
Artists in the Third Reich swiftly learnt to adapt to Hitler’s traditionalist cultural diktats
Jolly Bad Taste vs. feeble Good Taste
January 28, 2019
Sir Les Patterson or Poundbury, Roy Wood or Richard Rogers, dodgy clubs or lusty yeomen?