CIVILISATION
January/February 2010
As anti-Thatcher literature blossomed in the 1980s, it was tempting to argue that the Right had won the economic war and the Left had won the cultural war. But the real victors of the past 30 years are blaring populists, ignorant and proud of it.
January/February 2010
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely
January/February 2010
A new exhibition in Madrid casts a rich new light on the 19th-century French masters
January/February 2010
Watching the latest batch of spy thrillers, you'd never guess who the real enemy was
January/February 2010
Tom Ford’s moving adaptation of Isherwood’s novel avoids all the usual homosexual film clichés
January/February 2010
Alan Bennett’s play about Auden and Britten works. Timberlake Wertenbaker’s about Degas doesn’t
January/February 2010
Blogs, podcasts and digital concert halls are the way forward for classical music lovers
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