Detroit
Dysfunctional music by dysfunctional people
A star is born, but instead of emerging into the world beaming for the cameras, he spits and snarls and…
Detroit’s new colonials
In the opening sentence of this subtle and finely poised novel, the narrator, Greg Marnier, known as ‘Marny’, admits that…
City life
To gentrify or not to gentrify. That is the question, says Stephen Bayley
Cathedrals on wheels
Stephen Bayley hails the automobile – a miracle of technical and artistic collaboration – and mourns its demise
The treasures of Turin
Laura Gascoigne enjoys a grand tour of Italy’s former capital city
Detroit’s bankruptcy isn’t ‘creative destruction’ – it’s old-fashioned mismanagement
One of the best articles I ever commissioned as an editor was an account by James Doran of a road…
