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Cécile McLorin Salvant’s shock of the new

My Sam Peckinpah lockdown bender

He is perhaps a little too fond of drugs and weaponry, but he has also overcome great personal misfortune

In 1974 alone, there were 2,044 bombings in America, with 24 people killed

Sex therapy with Anna Karenina

Banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck has reinvented his instrument and retraced its roots

The world before woke

As he collects more than three decades of thinking and writing about sculpture into a new book, Eric Gibson introduces a few of his favorite things

An American debut, only a century late

Our rock critic has made an album with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck. Here he explains how…

El Greco is at the Art Institute of Chicago. Can we trust the modernists on the gifts of ‘The Greek’?

The chance of a lifetime for lovers of Raphael

A night at Blues Alley with the mighty Chestnut

Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway

By 1969, Churchill was dead and the Kinks, as an album group, were toast

Medieval gore for millennial gamers

Meryl Meisler’s photographs captured the family life and nightlife of Seventies New York

Bruckheimer may think that the Oedipus Complex is a Greek shopping mall, but the set-ups of Bad Boys and Top Gun are classical

De Niro should live up to his movie characters and stop his knee-jerk dissing of Donald Trump

The contemporary artist doesn’t expect to have to suffer for what he calls his art. Away with the garret!

Eat to the beat

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is now a politically correct pantywaist

Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out

In space, no one can hear you yawn