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Blake Morrison's new novel on a literary executor's tussle over a poet's posthumous publication

Schiele and Soutine both used art to express pathological suffering and confront death

Andreas Gursky’s disquieting yet sublime photographs form the first show at the refurbished Hayward

We celebrated our New Year on January 1 but the Chinese will do so this month. Why the difference?

The story of a family over two generations becomes embedded in the history of the 20th century in Mark Mazower's What You Did Not

The little town of Bethlehem has been irrevocably linked with Western visions of the Holy Land, but Nicholas Blincoe shows there is much more

Robert McCrum's Every Third Thought asks: how, when, and where are we going after death?

Iris Origo's diary of the runup to Italy entering WW2 is a fascinating record which cuts through Fascist propaganda