The great lost Beatles album
It’s a real shame the Christmas flexis have not had a proper, all-on-one album release
Books and Arts
Sunday
Saturday
Dead letters
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler reviewed
Friday
The Spectator’s Books of the Year 2020
The Spectator’s writers and friends recommend the best books, richest reads and most pandemical page-turners of 2020
Wednesday
Mostly ghostly: Henry James haunts Bly Manor
If you’re hoping for a show that requires your blanket be used to cover your eyes, skip this one
Tuesday
The Ryan Gattis guide to Lynwood
A virtual visit in the author’s beloved Los Angeles
Sunday
A tinpot Caesar
Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch reviewed
Wednesday
Night at the museum
Is the Baltimore Museum of Art exploiting the COVID-19 crisis to sell off major modern paintings?
Tuesday
Look east, old man
To the Lake is the right kind of Russian interference
Saturday
Is Billie Eilish really in shock over James Bond?
‘Shock’, from the French ‘choque’, began as the word for a collision of armies
Friday
Escape vehicle
The automobile’s artifice is its art, but it is still an art of artifice
Wednesday
Culture and anarchy
Félix Fénéon, terrorist and connoisseur
The author in full: Tom Wolfe
Wolfe excelled at capturing human foibles and petty vanities; anything deeper than that escaped him
Monday
The Disneyfication of the moral universe
Adults have chosen to understand the world through the prism of superheroes, wizards and Jedi knights
Sunday
The sorry history of London’s Hoover Building
Several other Thirties buildings from American firms survive in west London
Thursday
Back to my Toots
Farewell to the father of reggae
Wednesday
Booker prized
Notes on a New Orleans professor
Monday
Sensei it again
The return of the Karate Kid
Friday
Their Majesties the Presidents
Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson reviewed
Wednesday
Monumental Mahler
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910 by Stephen Johnson reviewed
Morals and mortality
How will we remember the great musicians of the past?