Title Stories: My Man Jeeves By P.G. Wodehouse
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One detective bows out…
A review of An event in Autumn, by Henning Mankell. The detective's become more famous than the creator, so the creator's killing him off
… and another is resurrected
A review of The Monogram Murders: A new Hercule Poirot Mystery, by Sophie Hannah (as Agatha Christie). It’s hard to imagine anyone doing a better job of resurrecting Poirot
We sat bewitched
A review of The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750, by Peter Brown. Brown called them essays but each chapter is in fact an inspired riff on a theme
Back in the mean streets
A review of Perfidia, by James Ellroy. There are big moral questions and grand themes in Ellroy's new crime novel but ultimately it’s all too inflated
A terrible beauty
A review of Waterloo: The Aftermath, by Paul O’Keeffe. This highly recommended history is a salutary reminder that most of the actual fighting was left to our allies
Comforting sounds to cook to
A review of For the Love of Radio 4: An Unofficial Companion, by Caroline Hodgson. Bet you didn’t know Arthur Scargill and Cilla Black both chose the Mona Lisa as their Desert Island Discs luxury
History Parade
We left the Scout hut shortly after dark, to ambush regulars acting as invaders. Later, there was to be a…
Live long and prosper
Science-fiction is the ultimate film genre, argues Peter Hoskin, on the eve of a major BFI season
From the sublime to the ridiculous
Plus: Why the Turner Prize should be abolished – and what could replace it
Golden hearted
Plus: ignore Rossini's primary-school simplification of Exodus, Pountney's Mose in Egitto for WNO is astonishing
Yes men
The remaining members look as though they're two or three years from shouting at pedestrians. But they're carrying on
Great leaps forward
Plus: give or take the odd mild swearword, Grantchester is a drama that could have been made any time in the past 50 years
Low life
A remarkable professor helped start my writing career – I didn't know how remarkable until I read his obituaries this week
Bridge
Has Zia Mahmood cried wolf one too many times? He’s still the undisputed master of the ‘psyche’ — he has…
Fabian strategy
Good news. Fabiano Caruana will be coming to London this December to participate in the sixth London Classic. This will…
No. 335
White to play. This position is a variation from Aronian-Anand, Bilbao 2014. White needs a subtle move to complete the…
