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
Wireless: Long March to the Microphone
They were all members of an obscure outpost of the hard Left. Now they're on The Moral Maze
The Maestro Of His Own Fate
A fine new tribute explains why Mahler matters more than ever
Close to the Bone
The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross
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