An ark in the deluge
"Libraries and archives are central to democracy because they are the storehouses of knowledge and truth"
Dread, time and the pandemic
Søren Kierkegaard’s reflections on worry are useful reading for those in lockdown
Close of play
Facing a summer without cricket
Big Brother is watching you
Citizens of mature, liberal democracies accept that some things done in our name by those who guard us take place in the grey margins of the law. If the ultimate objective is
Bohemian rhapsodies
Caroline Maclean’s Circles and Squares reads like a roll-call of the artistic great and good of the interwar years — whose enterprise stands in stark relation to the mess of their private lives
A breath of fresh paint
Who says painting is dead? The curators of a new show at London’s Whitechapel Gallery would have us believe that painting had its last hurrah in the 1980s. The stock market boom,
A boy’s own adventure
Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Well-tempered tones
A celebration of Sufi sounds in Rajasthan offers much to treasure
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
The dedication at the front of Graham and Hugh Greene’s famous anthology of espionage literature, The Spy’s Bedside Book (1957), reads: “To the immortal memory of William le Queux and John Buchan”.
Beat that
"Half a century since their break-up, the Fab Four grimly reaped to the tiresome two, the Beatles go on. Documentaries and dramas continue to be made, interviews are bigged-up, and last year,