Musical mountain obscured by cloud
Two centuries on, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata is still as enigmatic and sublime as ever
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Lusting after ruins: Rodin and the art of ancient Greece
For much of his life, Auguste Rodin suffered from an undiagnosed complaint: an ailment the Germans call Ruinenlust
A dark universe of the imagination
The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars is a wonderful, strange, genre-defying book
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