Why can’t film directors let their work go?

Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment

Joseph Connolly has never ridden a bike, drunk a pint of biiter or had a curry. Can you match his epic non-achievements?

Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’

‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life

The V&A’s new exhibition demonstrates that a handbag is indeed much more than its function

Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career

James Jeffrey explains why he won’t be signing up for a BLM-mandated commune anytime soon

David Fincher’s eleventh film is his most personal and revealing yet

Forty years on from the death of John Lennon, Dominic Green recounts the tormented life of the last universal Western icon