A piece for Prospect about the past, present and possible futures of minimalism, riffing off an excellent new book by Will Robin and Kerry O'Brien. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/music/…

From Claudio Monteverdi to John Butcher, via Pharoah Sanders, Beethoven and the much-missed Jaimie Branch - my albums of the year for Prospect prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/64365/…

James Bond is a man of mystery—and so was his author, Ian Fleming. Does a new biography of Fleming finally get to the bottom of this undemonstrative man? Not quite, says Philip Clark: prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/64485/…

Our 2/8 issue is now online, with Philip Clark on Bernstein and Maestro, David Cole on cancel culture, Laura Kolbe on that time of the month, Vivian Gornick on Lore Segal, Geoffrey O’Brien on hard-boiled gumshoes, and much more. go.nybooks.com/47zAcAJ

Rethinking Leonard Bernstein and modern music in the light of a problematic biopic - my essay for The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

My review of Will Hermes' fine new biography of Lou Reed for The Spectator World thespectator.com/book-and-art/l…

“Nobody could write uncomplicated affirmation like Bernstein…tonality for him could never just be blind affirmation. Composition needed to express doubt and disorientation, too; affirmation sometimes needed to be tested against uncertainty.” —Philip Clark go.nybooks.com/3vOvn9t

Out today! My piece about Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind exhibition at Tate for the April issue of Prospect prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/65025/…

The inner workings of Sonny Rollins' brain - my review of the Rollins Notebooks for The Spectator World thespectator.com/book-and-art/u…

I've written a review 'in brief' of Judith Tick's new Ella Fitzgerald biography for the latest Prospect - an exceptional book worthy of your attention, at last the definitive Ella. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/books/…

I wrote about the superb Franz Kafka exhibition at the Weston Library in Oxford for ⁦Prospect⁩ magazine’s weekly culture newsletter, which you can sign up for here - prospectmagazine.co.uk/newsletters ⁦Oxford Kafka⁩

A piece about Rebecca Watson and the experimental - or not - novel for Prospect magazine’s weekly culture newsletter, which you can sign up for here FOR FREE - prospectmagazine.co.uk/newsletters

A piece for The New York Review of Books about Dave Brubeck’s 1940s/50s Octet and how saxophonist and musical archaeologist Jon De Lucia brought it roaring back to life. nybooks.com/online/2024/08…

“Their library of tailor-made compositions and takes on jazz standards is marked by sleights of hand with form, experiments with regular meter, Stravinskian harmonies, and freewheeling counterpoint.” —Philip Clark on the Dave Brubeck Octet go.nybooks.com/3SL5nUV

Anthony Braxton at the Proms, and the perpetual problem of how the Proms deals with jazz, rock and pop - a piece for Prospect magazine’s weekly culture newsletter, which you can sign up for here - prospectmagazine.co.uk/newsletters

How jazz, rock, folk and pop all found their voice in Greenwich Village - my review of David Browne's fine new book for The Spectator World. thespectator.com/book-and-art/a…

World Premiere of 'CHRIS GOLLON: Life in Paint' Doc'n Roll Films Barbican Centre 29th Oct, featuring Thurston Moore Thurston Moore Eleanor McEvoy Yi Yao Philip Clark Philip Clark Tamsin Pickeral and #MaggiHambling. Trailer and tickets: docnrollfestival.com/films/chris-go…

My review for Prospect of Tricia Romano's riotous new book on the history and continuing fortunes, or otherwise, of the Village Voice. prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/67984/…

For the November issue of Prospect, I spoke to Laurie Anderson Laurie Anderson about her latest album Amelia, about the terror of piloting an orchestra for the first time, and about her latest stage work ARK. prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people/6…

I went to Cafe OTO earlier this month to experience Incapacitants in their full glory - a piece for London Review of Books blogs. lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/sept…