High-Stake Fakes
If you think that painting hanging in a dark corner of your house is worthless, think again
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Nabokov in Berlin
'Perhaps tying works of art to their originating topography is vulgar and needs to be kept discreet. But history needs Nabokov. During the artistically formative years, he lived here in the 1920s
The Maestro Of His Own Fate
A fine new tribute explains why Mahler matters more than ever
Britain is in Rude Health
From Hogarth to Spitting Image, nothing defines our national identity better than comic art
Damned If They Do
Music is the perfect medium to deal with Goethe's Faust because of its focus on the human condition
Moral Fog of War
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
The Fragrant Moralist
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
London and the Fornicating ’50s
Capital Affairs: The Making of Permissive Society by Frank Mort
Novel Delights
'"You can't write a novel," she said. But, at last, I have' - Craig Raine details the lengthy birth pains of his fiction debut
Early Draws
The British Museum is displaying some of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance
Pilgrim of Meaning
Newman’s Unquiet Grave: Portrait of a Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell There has not been, to say the least, a paucity of books about John Henry Newman, or of books which touch
The Original Dirty Digger
A King's Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger & Master Spy by Simon Burrows