In Review

What are the critics saying about Flora Fauna, Sour and Rodelinda?

The much-hyped Tate Modern exhibition has been described as ‘endlessly entrancing’ as well as ‘disquieting’

This haven of Italian style is the perfect base to explore the city from

Featuring The Graham Norton Book Club, The Deep-Sea Podcast and Rolling Stone Music Now

Frances Wilson sifts through D.H. Lawrence’s legacy for ‘what remains urgent and alive’

The paintings are described as ‘fresh’ and ‘joyous’, but also ‘unremarkable’

New releases from Sons of Kemet, Paul Weller, and Les Vents Français

The Guardian says this show ‘makes the art of the Middle Ages come alive’

New releases from Squid and St. Vincent

Featuring A Somewhat Complete History of Sitting Down, Aria Code, Sticky Notes and Life Changing with Jane Garvey

The Scottish-born Harvard historian Niall Ferguson has put the pandemic in the historical context of catastrophes

For all its strengths, the show is let down by a needlessly ‘censorious’ attitude towards its subject

Featuring Life Jolt, Prison Bag, Prison Break and The Lazarus Heist

New releases from Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis, The Coral, and Freddie De Tommaso

Serhii Plokhy’s ‘gripping narrative’ reveals the bad decisions that led to the Cuban missile crisis

The special effects pioneer’s love of art and mythology is explored in this newly reopened show

Featuring The Shift, Letters From A Killer, Tailenders and more

Catherine Ostler’s ‘scintillating’ biography of Elizabeth Chudleigh

Featuring The Sink: A Sleep Aid, Boring Books for Bedtime, The Improvement Association and more

John Sutherland’s ‘eye-opening’ book about the poet and his long-term girlfriend

Featuring Pseudocide, How’s Work?, and The Rob Auton Daily Podcast

New releases from Flyte, Schubert, and Peggy Seeger

Edmund de Waal pens a unique companion volume to his 2010 bestseller The Hare with Amber Eyes

Clinton Heylin’s 528-page tome – which only takes us as far as 1966 – proves the singer to be a ‘fibber’ 

Featuring Spy Affair, Griefcast, Criminal, and Laura Barton’s Notes on Music

New releases from Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders and the LSO; Lise Davidsen; and Dry Cleaning

A ‘riveting, serious and deeply intelligent’ biography of the complicated author 

Featuring I Was There Too, Page 94, The Rewatchables, and Boot Camp for the Brain

New releases from Ballaké Sissoko, Mahler, and For Those I Love

Philip Hoare’s book on Dürer is a ‘captivating journey’ blending biography, art history, nature writing and memoir 

Featuring Cautionary Tales, Philosophy Bites, and Call Me Mother

New releases from Valerie June, Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne, and Lana Del Rey

The diaries of the Tory MP provide an ‘unrivalled guide’ to society and politics in the interwar years

Featuring The Rest Is History, Kerning Cultures, and The Big Fib

New releases from The Anchoress, Clare Hammond, and Arab Strap

Though blinkered on certain issues, Peterson provides more sounds advice in his new book