Inside Edith Wharton’s house, a mirthful ode to classical taste
The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
Were the Impressionists really so shocking?
It suits us to think of the movement as unpopular, but the passing of time makes it harder to see why the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874 made such a stir
Olivia Laing’s guide to radical growth
Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In the writer’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too
The making of the Monet myth
Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye
‘He wasn’t edgy. He was honest’ – on the genius of David Lynch