The audacity of verse
The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside reviewed
Books & Arts
A hero for the Snowflake age
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is now a politically correct pantywaist
Kingdoms of the wicked
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century by Frank Dikötter reviewed
The soft power of Italian jazz
Eat to the beat
The Hayes of our lives
A soul survivor whose sonic alchemy endures
All modern art is quite useless
The contemporary artist doesn’t expect to have to suffer for what he calls his art. Away with the garret!
Is he talking to us?
De Niro should live up to his movie characters and stop his knee-jerk dissing of Donald Trump
Jung love
Savage Messiah: How Dr Jordan Peterson Is Saving Western Civilization by Jim Proser reviewed
Style on steroids: the power of Jerry Bruckheimer
Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical
Stayin’ alive in ’75
Meryl Meisler’s photographs captured the family life and nightlife of Seventies New York
Novel inspirations: H.L. Mencken, the bad boy of Baltimore
Ideas and theories were not Mencken’s meat and drink. Real people and social comedy were
