Civilisation

Until recently, it was assumed that Trilling had written only one long fiction, The Middle of the Journey (1947). Now, thanks to Geraldine Murphy we know that Trilling was a third of the way through another novel, begun years earlier

The playwright Simon Gray died on August 7. Shortly before his death he shared his thoughts on the theatre and much else in a Standpoint Dialogue with The Daily Telegraph‘s theatre critic Charles Spencer and our editor Daniel Johnson

In the dictionary on my laptop it defines art as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination”. To me, that’s cooking

As society grows increasingly nostalgic for traditional structures it seems that the theatre world is experimenting with ways to recreate them

The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan

The mysterious appeal of Alan Furst’s ‘historical espionage’ novels

In Search of the English Eccentric by Henry Hemming

Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker

Terror and Consent by Philip Bobbitt

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation by Ophelia Field