Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
A forgotten writer brought to life
Shirley Hazzard stuck doggedly to exploring love — a theme unfashionable even then
Maine attraction
There is better crime fiction being written
Rising above the mob
Questioning is kryptonite to the genderist cause
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Magic moments
A bomb dropped into the frightful world of mid-Victorian musical entertainment
The perversity of the Oasis reunion
The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
The unorthodox Englishness of Derek Jarman
The filmmaker was too complex to be reduced to a mere iconoclast
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
Rehabilitating an Edwardian genius
The sheer scale and diversity of Lutyens’ output is mind-blowing
Get smartphones out of school
Young people desperately need a break from social media
