Arts feature
Cheap thrills
Robert Jackman on the rise of the modern British B-movie
Morse mania
As the cult series draws to its conclusion, Tanya Gold travels to Morsefest in Oxford to meet the detective’s devoted followers
Monumental mistakes
Ukraine must stop demolishing its public statues, says Yevheniia Moliar
Lost worlds
Daisy Dunn on the mysterious Minoans
Stranger things
Christopher Howse on the transformative power of folk costume
Who’s that girl?
Laura Gascoigne on Vermeer’s women
Wars of the roses
Matthew Wilson on the female medieval poet who rescued the flower’s reputation
‘I’ve ended up looking for pixies’
Revd Steve Morris talks to former Damned drummer Rat Scabies about his journey from punk rock to the Holy Grail
Listening to walls
Frank Lawton talks to Maurizio De Luca, former chief restorer at the Vatican, about the pitfalls of his profession
Bitter sweet symphony
Norman Lebrecht on his hatred of Beethoven’s Pastoral
Petrol, seawater and blood
Tanya Gold talks to cult director Mark Jenkin about his ominous vision of Cornwall
Conduct unbecoming
Richard Bratby on monstrous maestros
Northern star
Laura Gascoigne on the shadowy Flemish artist Hugo van der Goes, whose painting in the Uffizi upstages the masterpieces of Botticelli
‘What happened in Russia can happen anywhere’
Oliver Basciano talks to Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot about Putin-baiting, Ukraine and western hypocrisy
The pleasure principle
Sam Kriss on how we became addicted to ASMR
Travels with Auntie
Tanjil Rashid on the BBC at 100
Comic genius
Mathew Lyons on the life lessons of Peanuts
At His Majesty’s pleasure
Damian Thompson on King Charles III’s love of classical music
No country for old men
Tanjil Rashid talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his long and underexplored love affair with film
Fight club
Not all video games are war games but those that are do something deeply unpleasant to our brains, says Sam Kriss
Fall from grace
Robert Gore-Langton explores the remarkable life of televangelist Tammy Faye, and its descent into chaos
End of play
Zoe Strimpel on how identity politics is killing theatre
A line in the sand
Sam Kriss on Saudi Arabia’s $1 trillion eco-city
A feast for the eyes
Jonathan Meades on the art of menus
National disasters
It is high time the Arts Council put ENO and ENB out of their misery, says Rupert Christiansen
