Dean’s group biography of female writers who dared speak their mind is a great and worthy project

The war in Gaza has exposed a level of anti-Semitism I didn’t realise was there

Since when were secateurs ‘a bladed weapon in a public space’?

The London venue’s Artistic Director talks about Wigmore Hall’s 125th anniversary season, programming 600 concerts – and finding ways to pay for it all.

West Norwood, London: Listen closely and you’ll hear that rehearsals are under way for the more full-throated performances in the coming months

How the English Reformation tried to obliterate a unique medieval artform

Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?

It’s that time of year when I reveal my favourite books of the year and hopefully give a bit of help to late present buyers.

In the wake of President Bashar al-Assad’s remarkable abdication of power, jubilation and fear collide as the country—and the region—faces an uncertain future.

The Booker shortlists of the 1970s are of exceptionally high quality, and while some of the novels may have fallen out of fashion, they’re essential volumes for any keen reader’s library

Chefs, writers, editors and a bookseller gathered to debate — and decide — which titles have most changed the way we cook and eat.

An exquisite restoration by Haworth Tompkins architects does justice to a collection which foreshadows Google’s image search and the postcard walls of student bedrooms

[FREE TO READ] The painter escaped Nazi Germany to become one of the towering figures of British postwar art

Artist Frank Auerbach talks about his life and some of the influences on his work.

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One of Britain's leading public intellectuals reflects on how racism – and his experience of it – has changed over the last 50 years

The life and writings of the indomitable Lady Paget at the courts of imperial Europe

From not sending the SAS to snatch Covid vaccines from the Dutch to not persuading Prince Harry to stay in Britain, Boris Johnson has got the nation gripped with his new memoir Unchecked…

Lack of time, elbow room and alcohol have created a problem in the world’s business capitals

What Kipling's critics get wrong about his writing

Nicholas Jenkins’s exhaustive volume – part biography, part literary study, part marathon – draws together the many influences on the young writer, from the first world war to his fascination with the...

Against the backdrop of a devastating conflict in Gaza, rising regional tensions and instability, we examine the history and geopolitics of the Middle East