Amazing grace
William Simmonds was a modest but extraordinary artist, whose reputation rested on his marionettes and puppets
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Music fills a void
Why does sacred music remain popular at a time when the Church, its historical home, does not?
The Merkel era ends in angst and anger
In Chemnitz, neo-Nazi street protests and rage against Germany’s liberal consensus erupt
Lionel Trilling: America’s Matthew Arnold
The great critic’s letters reveal his struggles with anti-Semitism and disillusion with Marxism
King Saul in his pomp — and dotage
Five wives and out? How Saul Bellow’s turbulent private life informed his novels
New way to tell a terrible story
New graphic novels take on difficult subject matter: the lives of Hannah Arendt and Anne Frank
Acerbic enemy of cowardice
The latest volume of Frederic Raphael's diaries is a book full of bite and feline gossip
The link between art and heart
A new Barbican exhibition explores how two were often better than one in the creative process
Escaping the Moscow ghetto
How a brilliant young Russian mathematician was blocked by blatant Soviet anti-Semitism