Through the plashy fen
Stella Tillyard's novel The Great Level is a strange and elusive beast
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Lasting legacy of an English idealist
Samuel Courtauld’s Impressionist paintings can now be seen beside those he bought for the nation
A la France profonde
Snails, wine and history in northern Burgundy
Bloody scandal
In the 1970s and ’80s, the NHS treated haemophiliacs with contaminated blood-clotting products. The public inquiry into that scandal is only just being set up
Tsar’s last huzzah
One hundred years ago, Edwardian England unwittingly hosted both the Romanovs and their future killers
An American Turner?
The National Gallery exhibition shows that Thomas Cole, like Turner and John Martin, was a visionary and a pictorial dramatist
Past imperfect
"Before the screening, I made bold to ask the audience not to refrain from laughter. They were nice enough to obey my incitement"
Refugees are big business for the UN
In Nairobi, there is resentment that asylum-seekers are treated better than local people
Saving Europeans isn’t the Italians’ job
In Reggio Calabria, ordinary people have had enough of the pro-EU elite
Poles apart, linked by one instrument
Chopin and Wanda Landowska were very different musicians with only one thing in common
Murdoch: a life on the risk frontier
Two very different books come as close as possible to explaining the enigma that is Murdoch and his extraordinary media empire
Spy who went into the cold
Roland Philipps makes a strong case that Donald Maclean was, from the Soviet point of view, the most valuables spy of the Cambridge Five