The sphinx who reshaped Europe
The key to Europe’s future lies with Mario Draghi, the technocrat who sidelined politicians and saved the Euro, but who now needs them to succeed as Italy’s PM
The rise of Mrs Europe
A new EU is emerging. Will Ursula von der Leyen lead it to triumph or failure?
Let’s call it a wrap
Hannah Betts is hooked on the insouciance of a vast scarf
A surprising celebration
Good Friday is both a demonstration of, and the only answer to, what has gone wrong with the world
Why can Hollywood never get the King Arthur story right?
Like natural disasters, adaptations of the Arthurian legend seem to arrive about once a decade and leave devastation in their wake
Heroes, but not trans heroes: How two female artists defied the Nazis
Jeffrey Jackson’s lively and compassionate account plunges readers into the depths of the Occupation and the Channel Islands’ resistance movement
Secrets of Portobello
Thomas Woodham-Smith treasures a classic antiques street market
Johanna Martzy/Michael Mann (DG Eloquence)
The fruits of Michael Mann’s musical career is neither one thing nor another; trapped between Weimar modernism and American consumerism
Will the UK ever use its leverage against the EU?
Brussels asks Britain for an extension whilst rigorously implementing the NI Protocol
Why are great writers such awful people?
In the wake of renewed controversy over Philip Roth’s treatment of women, Nigel Jones asks whether there is a link between creative genius and sexual unorthodoxy
Psychological cures to social ills?
Oliver Wiseman speaks to Jesse Singal about how bad ideas spread so easily and why the psychological cures to our social ills should be taken with a spoonful of salt
Mood music from the past
A confidential matter: the letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935