Category Culture

There’s something about the Proms that brings out the star quality in visiting orchestras – and their conductors. Plenty already think that Klaus Mäkelä wafts clouds of stardust wherever he goes – including the managements of both the Concertgebouw and…

Writing her latest novel, Creation Lake, “was the most fun I’ve ever had doing anything in my life”, Rachel Kushner says when we meet in her London hotel. “It was almost like a drug high or a kind of madness.…