The Value Of Victoria
Paula Bartley's biography of Queen Victoria, based on the monarch's letters and journals, brings out surprising contradictions
Comrade Peter Pan
Is the unlikeliest Labour leader a ruthless operator or an idealist whose views never really grew up?
Benn: Bomb Or Bust?
Hilary Benn is about to face his moment of truth
Conservative Capers
How American politics became polarised
Home Discomforts
Throughout literature, supernatural creatures have a way of disturbing safe havens
Music, Terror, Garlic Amulets
Julian Barnes's 'The Noise of Time'
Raymond Radiguet: Mad About The Boy
Cocteau’s poetic protégé was a louche literary wunderkind the world lost too soon
Museo Dell’Opera Del Duomo, Florence
The newly renovated museum for the Duomo's artistic treasures brings these great works back to life