March 2020

‘Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to incompetence, they say. Sure enough, there is plenty of the latter at work in national politics. The Democratic side of the presidential race has become a muddle, with too many candidates and no clear message.’


Art March 1, 2020

‘All rock ’n’ roll starts and ends with Lou Reed’

Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…

Luke Haines

Books March 1, 2020

Becoming shades

Actress by Anne Enright reviewed

Ruth Scurr

Books March 1, 2020

Uniform beats

Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte reviewed

Jay Elwes

Art March 1, 2020

An old master who still feels new

El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?

Benjamin Riley

Art March 1, 2020

Cats: The Snuff Movie

Too many Netflix true-crime documentaries are tiresome and overlong. This one was a lot worse than that

James Delingpole

Books March 1, 2020

Birth of a nation

India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla reviewed

Kapil Komireddi

Books March 1, 2020

I won’t read American Dirt — but not because the author has the wrong skin color

You can’t own stories. You can’t patent topics and classes of character

Lionel Shriver