Their Majesties the Presidents
Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson reviewed
Books & Arts
Sensei it again
The return of the Karate Kid
Booker prized
Notes on a New Orleans professor
Back to my Toots
Farewell to the father of reggae
The sorry history of London’s Hoover Building
Several other Thirties buildings from American firms survive in west London
The Disneyfication of the moral universe
Adults have chosen to understand the world through the prism of superheroes, wizards and Jedi knights
The author in full: Tom Wolfe
Wolfe excelled at capturing human foibles and petty vanities; anything deeper than that escaped him
Culture and anarchy
Félix Fénéon, terrorist and connoisseur
Escape vehicle
The automobile’s artifice is its art, but it is still an art of artifice
Is Billie Eilish really in shock over James Bond?
‘Shock’, from the French ‘choque’, began as the word for a collision of armies