Biography
The restless life of a very bourgeois rebel
Gauguin was not an artist who lent himself to categorisation
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
Confessions of a left-wing Pope
Life: My Story Through History by Pope Francis with Fabio Marchese Ragona
Why there has been no Street life
G.E. Street built or restored 113 churches for the Oxford diocese alone
Iain Banks: a double life
His disturbing debut, The Wasp Factory, is being reissued this year
Alcibiades
The Ancient Greek orator, philanderer, drunk, traitor and hero would have felt at home in modern politics
Great Lives — great, The Essay — awful
Radio 3 maintains its course towards self-destruction
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
The truth about London Bridge
Flawed narratives should not distort historical memory of the planning for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II