The Symphony: A Moral Vision Revealed In Music
Beethoven set the bar impossibly high but composers like myself still regard it as the ultimate challenge
Hume’s ‘Treatise’ And The Problem Of Early Success
A new biography sheds light on the afterlife of Hume's writings
When Francis Was Still Jorge
Cardinal Bergoglio's road to the Vatican
Stalin’s Man In London
The newly-published diaries of Ivan Maisky are an extraordinarily important 21st-century contribution to our understanding of the Second World War
Our Island’s Storytelling
How Britain discovered a lucrative new role as a global cultural powerhouse
Chelsea Or Montmartre?
The artists and writers who pursued the muse in fin-de-siècle London and Paris
The Sons Also Rise
What is it like to grow up as the child of a dictator?
Found In Translation
One of the greatest writers of short stories is finally getting his English-language dues