The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity

Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation

Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one

Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics

Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona

G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone

His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year

The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics

Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction

He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums