More Popular than Jesus: The Hubris of the Music Industry
The tenor Ian Bostridge and the historian Tim Blanning discuss popular and classical music with Standpoint editor Daniel Johnson
A Foreign Affair: David Bowie in Berlin
Haunted by Isherwood's shade, the British musician flirted with fascism, then became a hero to the youth of the communist East
From Baubles to Babel
The year the contemporary art juggernaut ground to a halt
New York: A Cousin in the White House
US Election Week diary: New Yorkers and their attitudes towards the new president “I don’t want to live in a country that will elect
Duped by the Devil
Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Lawrence Rees
Box of Tricks
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow
Exotic Stew
The China Lover by Ian Buruma
Booby Prize
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga