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Arts and Letters
Arts and Letters
by | Oct 25, 2025

The other day, someone asked me why I thought the great epic by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, no longer seems…

by | Oct 24, 2025

In one of his Spectator A.M. letters this week, our Dan Flynn noted that Taylor Swift occupies eight of the top ten…

by | Oct 16, 2025

I’ve been familiar with at least a few of Vernon Duke’s songs — among the most famous of them being…

by | Oct 9, 2025

It’s been said of him that he straddles magical figuration and surrealism, and I’m not sure whether that description applies…

by | Sep 28, 2025

“Even divine nature needs its diminuendos and morendos, in order to come to life again and rise up, heading for…

by | Sep 9, 2025

I know that I waste a lot of time during the day looking at something on a screen. “But it…

by | Aug 27, 2025

In recent days, Vanity Fair has become the eye of a newsroom hurricane. Reports say the magazine’s new global editorial…

by | Aug 26, 2025

Devo, a documentary on the punk/new-wave band of that name, has dropped on Netflix. It’s an earnest, archive clip-packed attempt…

by | Aug 9, 2025

At the tender age of eight, John Gideon Millingen found himself whisked away from his comfortable London home at No….

by | Jul 19, 2025

It’s going on 30 years since we last heard from Dieter. He was the ultra-Berliner who hosted the fictional German…

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