Christopher Tadgell's seven-volume Architecture In Context is astonishingly ambitious, and effortlessly even-handed

Stephen Glover's Fleet Street novel Splash! is a burlesque treat

The makers of a documentary about British jihadists shown on Channel 4 deserve our thanks

An exhibition lets us see objects from Matisse’s studio alongside the paintings he used them in

The National Theatre’s new play about Enclosure is a dud, unlike On The Town in Regent’s Park

From choirs to colliery bands, the Cumnock Tryst festival celebrates the social aspect of music

Bruckner and Mahler were very different but their epic ninth symphonies have much in common

Raphael could draw like an angel, as Raphael: The Drawings at the Ashmolean, Oxford, shows

Sadiq Khan knows how to make himself popular, but he has a duty to open up closed Muslim communities

Ahmed Aboutaleb, Mayor of Rotterdam, has the courage to tackle Islamic integration and extremism head-on