athletics
A prayer for the Holocaust dead
Extra-judicial killing and its long aftermath forms the core of Linda Kinstler’s remarkable new book
Studio: Donatello at the Palazzo Strozzi
A magnificent celebration of the artist who was midwife to the birth of humanism
Modern echoes of ancient history
Stephen Kershaw may have taken accessibility too far in his classical account
Not doing God
The political perils of secularisation
I’m done with po-faced politicians
We have long since lost the spirit of 1983
Isabella Leonarda; A portrait (Brilliant Classics)
Passion and originality blossom behind the walls of the cloister
France’s unspoken, unfinished civil war
France’s cycle of social unrest and politically polarised elections has its roots in the Algerian conflict and the ensuing unresolved struggle for the soul of the nation
Literary festivals: sheer hell in a tent
To make people laugh for an hour is good business sense — but it says nothing about writing, or creativity, or art
The decline of the UK art market
The UK’s prominence as a place to buy and sell the most prestigious art is under sustained threat
A return to duty
Campaign Diary: Bedbound reflections on the ongoing brutality of war in Ukraine
Another Elizabeth, a second Anne
In our secular age the Queen has been Anglicanism’s most compelling representative