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Gerald Howard’s The Insider is a crowded but colourful portrait of Malcolm Cowley, poet, editor and chronicler of the so-called Lost Generation – those American exemplars of literary modernism who, li

The final days of June last year were a wonderful time for vicarious lovers of bling. On the 22nd, the third season of Julian Fellowes’s lavish TV series, The Gilded Age, dropped on HBO. Just days lat

“This tremendous aggregate of a book has many of the characteristics of a Festschrift assembled to honour some Great Influencer”: so, in 1973, the architectural historian Priscilla Metcalf began the f

Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exuberant world of The Tyrant Philosophers

We’re going slightly off-piste here this month by moving into the world of fiction. Rather like the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson seemingly being tasked with writing and arranging a new album every few wee