What’s the Score?
Far from being a diluted form of the orchestral work, piano transcriptions often reveal hidden depths to old favourites
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Judit and Holofernes
In a male dominated game it was an 15-year-old girl who became the youngest ever grandmaster. She is now chess's finest female player
Mind the Gap
The gap between big business and small businesses is growing. Unfortunately Vince Cable and Mervyn King are no bridge builders
Free To Choose
We now live in the world of iDemocracy, according to Douglas Carswell, but unlimited choice in the state sector is unsustainable
A Nation of Heretics
Religious belief is on the rise in the US but not of the traditional sort. Rather, a self-serving, navel-gazing, pseudo-Christianity has taken hold
Lunch With J.K.
In 1997 Harry Potter was fresh and exciting, the brainchild of a passionate author then the movie studios moved in and the magic was lost
Nasty Business
Paradoxically, what is lost in the translation of Leviathan from English to Latin, reveals the real meaning of Hobbes's most quoted passage
Life With Father
Comparing Colette's protagonist Gigi with her namesake Gigi Chao shows that meddling family members are nothing new
Home Sweet Home From Home
'One can become American but one can never become English'
Camera Bravura
The National Gallery's new show, Seduced by Art, celebrates the lasting influence of photography's earliest pioneers
Hidden Sanctuary Of Byzantine Art
A closed-off dark age church in Rome reveals the true majesty of an often under-appreciated Byzantine tradition
Chronicle Of History’s Greatest Carnage
Tombstone, by Yang Jisheng, is an uncomfortable read but a brave and important account of the huge human cost of Mao's Great Leap Forward