May 2021


Music April 23, 2021

A prog rock progress

Steven Wilson is going about becoming a pop musician entirely the wrong way

Michael Hann

Books April 23, 2021

Berlin has always been a Faustian metropolis

A new history of east and west, best and worst

William Cook

Books April 23, 2021

My war of words

The agony of watching friends succeed

Cosmo Landesman

Art April 23, 2021

More than a Klan man

Philip Guston’s work shows the hopelessness, the struggle of making art

Hermione Eyre

Podcasts April 23, 2021

School of hard Knox

As Amanda Knox walks listeners through the day of her arrest, it’s apparent she is still upset

Emily Ferguson

Music Review April 23, 2021

I’m turning Japanese

In the Eighties, Japan had prosperity, optimism, loads of bizarre porn and the solace of technological gadgetry

Luke Haines

Book Review April 23, 2021

Read all over

Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s ‘Girl Stunt Reporters’ by Kim Todd reviewed

Katrina Gulliver

Book Review April 23, 2021

Devil in the details

Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall reviewed

Jamie Collinson

Book Review April 23, 2021

Thomas Hennell should be more widely known

Thomas Hennell: The Land and the Mind by Jessica Kilburn reviewed

Andrew Lambirth

Book Review April 23, 2021

The weeping wounds of Algeria

The Art of Losing and Tomorrow They Won’t Dare Murder Us reviewed

Boyd Tonkin