Midterm madness — or Trump’s last stand?
Could the US midterm elections change the course of Trump’s presidency?
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Viennese rooms with a point of view
The salons of Vienna were key spaces for promoting the emancipation of women and Jews
Sylvia has the last wounding word
The second volume of Plath’s Letters begins with great happiness and poetic promise — and ends with the destruction of her marriage and her death
Low points of life with Father
This has been an extraordinary autumn for books about the havoc bad fathers wreak on their children. It is hard to know which father comes out worst: Jonathan Miller or Steve Jobs
A journey towards faith
A novel set during the Algerian war has chilling relevance to what is happening in the Middle East today
The master of human vanity
The new Pieter Bruegel exhibition in Vienna really is a once-in-a-lifetime artistic experience
Decade of Passion
This year's Passion for Freedom exhibition asks: “What is freedom? How do you preserve it? How do you celebrate it?"
Simmel’s selfie
Georg Simmel was prescient: he realised that the freedom to pose as who we like helps in high-pressure mass societies Georg Simmel: Selfie aware Georg Simmel would have understood selfies. The German
Amazing grace
William Simmonds was a modest but extraordinary artist, whose reputation rested on his marionettes and puppets
Music fills a void
Why does sacred music remain popular at a time when the Church, its historical home, does not?
The Merkel era ends in angst and anger
In Chemnitz, neo-Nazi street protests and rage against Germany’s liberal consensus erupt
Lionel Trilling: America’s Matthew Arnold
The great critic’s letters reveal his struggles with anti-Semitism and disillusion with Marxism