CIVILISATION
November 2011
Philip Larkin's letters to his lover Monica Jones speak of a non-sexual intimacy and chart his progression to poetic maturity
November 2011
Book review of Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson, New Women in Search of Love and Power by Susan Hertog
November 2011
The National Gallery’s new Leonardo show illuminates his quest for painterly perfection
November 2011
The boom years lasted so long that writers and artists lost their nose for trouble
November 2011
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is stylish and plausible, but its lack of spectacle means it won’t go viral
November 2011
The West Yorkshire Playhouse’s production of King Lear is a pacy triumph
November 2011
The age of megalomaniac conductors seems to be over—and about time too
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