Tormented prophets of apocalyptic art
Schiele and Soutine both used art to express pathological suffering and confront death
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
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
Charles I: King and collector
From martinet to martyr at the Royal Academy's show examining the art collection of Charles I
The eye homes in — he homes out
Andreas Gursky’s disquieting yet sublime photographs form the first show at the refurbished Hayward
New Year confusions
We celebrated our New Year on January 1 but the Chinese will do so this month. Why the difference?
Pure filth
When it comes to walking, be independent and indefatigable, like Jane Austen's heroines — and Jane Austen herself
Tunnel vision
The original designs of the Thames Tunnel were auctioned at Bonhams in London for £200,000 in November
End of the affair
Hilary Spurling's biography of Anthony Powell contains a surprising revelation: that Powell's wife had an affair during the Second World War
Sex, politics and the new blasphemy
Westminster is scandalised by sexual harassment that would once have been treated as a joke. But does the nation take it quite so seriously?
Social market liberals of the world, unite!
We need to restate the case for the free-market policies and liberal politics that have ushered in an age of unprecedented prosperity