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Dmitri Shostakovich’s music, and the master of the double-entendre

September 25, 2024

The 25th of September marks the birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose life and times, according to Stephen Johnson, is ‘one of the most dramatic, stirring, at times even darkly comical in the history of classical music’.

William McCrum, Robert McCrum and the story of the penalty kick

September 18, 2024

The story of the penalty kick is one of chance, risk and obsession that took Robert McCrum many years to uncover. Read the story of how the book came into being.

Our best Ian Nairn quotes

August 29, 2024

To commemorate Ian Nairn, enjoy some of the best quotes from our most passionate, outraged architectural critic.

Victorian gossip: The rivalry between Dickens and W.M. Thackeray

July 18, 2024

Read about the literary rivalry between the two supreme male novelists of the Victorian era: W.M. Thackerary and Charles Dickens.

John Berger: Ways of Seeing, Cataract and the 1972 Booker Prize

May 14, 2024

‘If I’m a storyteller, it’s because I listen.’ John Berger Born in Stoke Newington in…

The Compleat Angler and the Emergence of Fishing Writing

May 10, 2024

Fishing is not the pursuit of catching fish: it is the pursuit of trying to catch fish.

Simon Heffer on the Curse of History

May 7, 2024

Simon Heffer, author of A Short History of Power, asks: can things really only get better?