Musical mountain obscured by cloud
Two centuries on, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata is still as enigmatic and sublime as ever
A sufi sage for the ages
Ibn Khaldun has been repackaged to serve contemporary concerns many times, but Robert Irwin's biography cuts through the myth-making
Exodus the world ignored
Lyn Julius's Uprooted is an authoritative history of the decline and virtual end of Jewish life in the Arab world