Bruce Cole
New York Survival Story
How the New York Public Library weathered a near-death experience
Gehry’s Middle Finger
The pugnacious and perennial bad boy and his ego
An Insult to Ike
Frank Gehry’s $100 million memorial to Dwight Eisenhower isn’t just an ugly monstrosity, but a gargantuan folly funded by the taxpayer
Last lines: Clive James
Fans of Clive James cherished his poetry as much as his other accomplishments. This is an excerpt from Ian Shircore’s new biography, “So Brightly at the Last”, the first full-length study of the man and his muse
The BBC must be saved from itself
Our national broadcaster is on course for financial self-destruction and viewers no longer trust it to be impartial. Boris must rescue it
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty