Will Wiles is the author of several novels. His most recent book is The Anechoic Chamber, and other weird tales (Salt Publishing).
The subject of this painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but the work will always have a strong family connection
The contents of the artist’s house were sold after his death and Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – to wonderfully spooky effect
The History Faculty Building in Cambridge, completed in 1968, is hard to love. But love it this former student does
The dissolution of certainties about American power now has its perfect visual emblem – in the form of bulldozers reducing part of the White House to rubble
It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision
Eero Saarinen's US embassy building in Mayfair has long been undervalued, but its conversion into a luxury hotel may help revive its reputation
The decision to demolish Grenfell Tower – where 72 people died in a fire in 2017 – is inevitably controversial, but the process of doing so will be unusually considered
Though museums use them to provide more information, QR codes can conceal as much as they reveal
Wasps have a terrible image problem but a new exhibition highlighting their design abilities should help us get over our horror
Stellan Skarsgård’s art dealer/spymaster in ‘Andor’ is perfectly placed to see the inner workings of empire