Iris Murdoch, The Virtuoso Of Virtue
The letters of the great writer reveal affairs with both sexes but also an intense intellectual and spiritual life
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Floating In The Void
Alexander Calder’s mobiles display both a musical stateliness and a satisfying sense of equlibrium
Standing The Test Of Spacetime
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
Giambattista Bodoni
Every piece by the Italian printer and type designer is a paragon of the art
America’s Silver Bullet
Might the world’s second-ranked player, Hikaru Nakamura, manage to emulate his countryman Bobby Fischer? The launch of the Hollywood biopic Pawn Sacrifice, with Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer, has given rise to