Communist composers tried to create ideologically pure works for the workers — but without any great degree of success

Could a progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders?

Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave

Few who sought to understand Hegel have got the gist of the Geist

Wherever French see merde, there’s someone over the Manche to appreciate a picturesque glitter

Almost everybody found it easier to disengage from what was happening

Spend time inside the mind of your most eccentric, sometimes maddening friend

Few things are more tedious than books moralising about the deficiencies of yesteryear

From tumbles off the stage to the anxieties of age

On a performance in three dimensions for all five senses