Is Lou Reed a rock ’n’ roll Dostoevsky?
I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Collected Lyrics by Lou Reed reviewed
Books and Arts
Monday
A vacation in a hell of a state
North Korea Journal by Michael Palin reviewed
Tuesday
Top Boy wins the turf war
Top Boy reviewed
Wednesday
If only Georges Simenon had been a bit more like Maigret
The pipe-smoking detective’s creator was a sex addict who died rich and lonely in a vast Swiss château
Sunday
Secrets of the maestro
The first major American exhibition of Andrea del Verrocchio confirms that he was a Renaissance innovator, and more than Leonardo’s teacher
Saturday
Grandpa, who were the Rolling Stones, and why?
Raising the goblet of rock
Pod almighty
Building the great podcast of Alexandria
Monday
Race to the finish
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams reviewed
Friday
A great time in the Faddisphere
Faddis took a break, sat down on a chair onstage near me, then started blowing along with the band again
Tuesday
Who killed the American arts?
The decline from Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin to A$AP Rocky and Lizzo is a slide from civilization to barbarism
Thursday
Is Peaky Blinders past its peak?
If the cap fits…
Monday
Blondie ambition
Face It by Debbie Harry reviewed
Saturday
Louise Linton: why I don’t like being ‘the wife of…’
I married a politician. But my identity is not defined by my husband
Friday
Not in front of the servants
Long live Downton Abbey
