The referendum Remainers won
The similarities between the 1975 and 2016 EU referendums are more striking than the differences
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
In my end is my beginning
An 'alternative' mortician is on a quest for the West to deal with death
Publish and be damned
Blake Morrison’s new novel on a literary executor’s tussle over a poet’s posthumous publication John Murray: Byron’s publisher and literary executor burned Byron’s memoirs (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund,
The man who set himself in stone
Murillo has gone out of fashion but an exhibition of his portraits may help to restore his reputation
Tormented prophets of apocalyptic art
Schiele and Soutine both used art to express pathological suffering and confront death
Minotaurs, Muses and modernity
Classical scholarship for love, not money, leads to some liberating interpretations
As through a glass clearly
With his new translation of the New Testament, David Bentley Hart has brought the Bible back to life
The Talmudist in the Tower
Ofir Haivry's study of John Selden, the 17th-century lawyer and polymath who engaged deeply with Jewish legal traditions, is searching and original
The eye homes in — he homes out
Andreas Gursky’s disquieting yet sublime photographs form the first show at the refurbished Hayward
Can rape and murder make beautiful art?
An exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, raises the question of depicting violence
FDR, the President whom nobody knew
Robert Dallek's biography adds very little that is new to our knowledge of an almost totally inscrutable President
Family saga in war and peace
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 Tell