CIVILISATION
May 2013
Bill and Shirley Letwin kept open house for open minds from Chicago to Cambridge and Hampstead
May 2013
Underrated American author James Salter's latest novel, at its best, evokes Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Tolstoy
May 2013
George Catlin both recorded and idealised the vanquished native Indian tribes of North America
May 2013
British television editors still live in the 1980s, where the world of Netflix and iTunes is a distant dream
May 2013
All-too-predictable sci-fi and tired post-modern campery imply that original cinematic ideas are rare
May 2013
A double bill of Alan Bennett plays expertly transports us to a world of childhood hopes and grief
May 2013
This year could mark the coming of age of Poland as a musical nation. What took so long?
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