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Issue: April 2020

Dress sense
‘My own red carpet days have long since mutated into brown lino nights, but looking back at the times I borrowed a designer frock for a nomination, I usually spent the evening feeling faintly immoral’
Maureen Lipman

Infectious enthusiasms
Hard times on stage—and off it
Mark Lawson

A breath of fresh paint
A revival in figurative art and the changing face of portraiture
Cindy Polemis

A boy’s own adventure
Privileged images: the photography of Jacques Henri Lartigue
Christian House

Well-tempered tones
A celebration of Sufi sounds in Rajasthan offers much to treasure
Jonathan Gaisman

Robert Conquest: Garland for a Propagandist
The Commissar of Bray: Robert Conquest satirises Communist hackery
Robert Conquest

Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan was a writer with a rich hinterland—and an affection for “shockers”
Ursula Buchan

Toponymic subjugation
Excessive politeness by Britons is making a mess of place names at home and abroad
Peter Trudgill

Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics
Nick Cohen

A hinge in history
The tumult in Kiev 15 years ago seemed a victory for progress and idealism—but the Orange Revolution marked the furthest point of democracy’s advance
A.D. Miller

An autumn note
“For many, the end of this uneasy year cannot come quickly enough”
Andreas Campomar

An ordinary killing
Ian Cobain’s book uses the killing of Millar McAllister to paint a meticulous portrait of the Troubles
Chris Mullin

Greater—not wiser
John Mullan elucidates the genius of Charles Dickens
Anthony Quinn
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