A lockdown memoir: Surprising conversations with my father

Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war

Krapp’s last tape might these days be a collection of WhatsApps and stored Instagram images, muses Anne McElvoy

Adam LeBor commends the BBC’s latest documentary on the Iraq war

Each cartoon had a story to tell about eminent figures in Victorian and Edwardian society

One student’s escape from a campus cult

Why is the American south still regarded as repository for all the shortcomings of America?

A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War

When politics is all-out war, everyone’s a loser

Is foreign interference in British politics any different now than in the past?