South Bank Oberon
The memoir of the National Theatre's former artistic director is absorbing, insouciant and amusing
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
A Sense Of Englishness
Eric Ravilious and Henry Moore
The Enduring Myths Of Catholic Inequality
Anti-Catholic calumnies remain deeply embedded in our culture. Professor Rodney Stark's Bearing False Witness hopes to refute them
Last Of The Great Elitists
A book of conversations with George Steiner, newly available in translation, is a good introduction to the great cultural critic's preoccupations
Hellenistic Hubris
Johanna Hanink's The Greek Debt asks if we owe the Greeks for the foundations of Western democracy—or do they owe us for their economic mismanagement?
Look The East End In The Face
Charles Saumarez Smith's East London is a voyage of discovery into the richness and variety of an area in constant flux
A Great Creative Artist, Not Just A Victim
A new Rome exhibition reveals how Artemisia Gentileschi bravely reshaped her life and art
Tricks Of Memory
Novels by Francesca Segal and Anna Stothard take on the plight of the modern Millenial