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Maize is a far more useful grain than we give it credit for

Two centuries on, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata is still as enigmatic and sublime as ever

Ibn Khaldun has been repackaged to serve contemporary concerns many times, but Robert Irwin's biography cuts through the myth-making

Lyn Julius's Uprooted is an authoritative history of the decline and virtual end of Jewish life in the Arab world

Andrew Gimson's portraits of our 54 prime ministers are lucid, pithy and perceptive

US artists of the interwar years can at last be appreciated in a revealing Oxford exhibition

The similarities between the 1975 and 2016 EU referendums are more striking than the differences

An 'alternative' mortician is on a quest for the West to deal with death