Boom time for Picasso Inc.
One name dominates the art market, with his paintings soaring in value and remaining a solid investment
Rulers ruled by a sense of history
"Christopher Clark's subject is neither time nor power, but something even more evanescent: how those who wielded power were influenced by their sense of history"
The man who went off script
In her lively and readable biography, Adina Hoffman charts Ben Hecht’s progress from America’s most successful screenwriter to Jewish activist
The iPhone, not the I Ching
"What exactly is China anyway? Is it a civilisation, as some claim? Or a “civilisation state”, with unique cultural markers but within set borders?"
Illiberal and irrelevant
"Francis Green and David Kynaston do not like private schools. They think the government should do something to stop children attending them. Why? You already know the answer."
Daddy, I hardly knew you
Linn Ullmann's novel Unquiet interweaves her childhood with conversations with her father Ingmar Bergman — a work of both memory and imagination
The art of survival in Nazi Germany
Artists in the Third Reich swiftly learnt to adapt to Hitler’s traditionalist cultural diktats