But Have They Starved?
The Prose Factory is a spirited dash through British literary history — and the many ways writers have struggled to pay their bills
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Value Of Victoria
Paula Bartley's biography of Queen Victoria, based on the monarch's letters and journals, brings out surprising contradictions
Comrade Peter Pan
Is the unlikeliest Labour leader a ruthless operator or an idealist whose views never really grew up?
Benn: Bomb Or Bust?
Hilary Benn is about to face his moment of truth
Conservative Capers
How American politics became polarised
Home Discomforts
Throughout literature, supernatural creatures have a way of disturbing safe havens
Music, Terror, Garlic Amulets
Julian Barnes's 'The Noise of Time'
Raymond Radiguet: Mad About The Boy
Cocteau’s poetic protégé was a louche literary wunderkind the world lost too soon
Museo Dell’Opera Del Duomo, Florence
The newly renovated museum for the Duomo's artistic treasures brings these great works back to life
The Fine Art Of Editing Reveals The Real Eliot
The new edition of Eliot's elusive poems surprises, delights and informs
Erotic Tonic For A Mad World
Catullus's life — and snapshots of metropolitan Rome — are revealed through his poems in Daisy Dunn's quick-witted biography
The History Of Our History
Two new editions of classic texts illuminate the duality of deep histories