A brief light on a field of shades Francis Thompson’s strange and ephemeral life gave rise to poetry which, though long out of fashion, captures the nostalgia of cricket December 3, 2018 Features
How the Ancients can help the Moderns Against all the odds, the study of Classics is increasing in popularity — and for very good reasons December 3, 2018 Critique
How baffling to know Mr Lear In her biography of Edward Lear, Sara Lodge engages with the contradictions at the heart of a man determined to both express and conceal himself December 3, 2018 Books
The spy who loved us "The Spy and the Traitor brings out with agonising clarity the danger that Oleg Gordievsky had voluntarily decided to run" December 3, 2018 Books
Exiles fall out in La La Land How Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg quarreled in the irritable hothouse climate of the Los Angeles émigrés December 3, 2018 Books
To whom does Kafka belong? In telling the story of Kafka's papers, Benjamin Balint’s new book explores a larger issue: who owns Kafka? December 3, 2018 Books
No art too good for the workers Fernand Léger drew from popular entertainment and working life to make Cubism less inaccessible December 3, 2018 Art
Is this the real life or just fantasy? It may not be possible to know if we are living in a simulation — but perhaps we don’t need certainty December 3, 2018 Cosmos
Chastising Churchill 'Seventy years after independence, bashing Winston Churchill has become a sure-fire way of attracting a mass following on Indian social media' October 29, 2018 Counterpoints
Virtue Broadcasting 'The BBC’s new policy on “equality and diversity” reads as though it is straight out of the W1A comedy series' October 29, 2018 Counterpoints
Skin and bone 'Jusepe de Ribera went beyond palpability — the way the paint becomes flesh — to the visceral. He sought to engage all our senses at once' October 29, 2018 Counterpoints
Bess the best 'There once was a Tudor woman with flaming red hair. Her name was Elizabeth, but she wasn’t the queen. Her reputation preceded her — Bess of Hardwick' October 29, 2018 Counterpoints