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Nostalgia has long been the key to pop’s survival

Activists are secretly training the judiciary to misapply the law

Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks

His concerto is a rag-and-bone man’s barrow trundling down a Haussmann boulevard

Professor Jeremy Black rounds up the best autumnal reads that are successful in grounding a sense of place

Fates in this unforgiving industry are long decided

The apostate saint

Did peace prevail in the World Wars thanks to providential deliverance, or just a number of very fortunate occurrences?

The Genetic Lottery is not the only book published this summer to tackle controversial topics in biology

Lucien veers between lamenting modern theatre’s disdain for “truly serious work” and suspecting that it all could have gone a great deal worse