A Florence exhibition celebrates one of the most influential artists you’ve never heard of

Nothing written is utterly without value, as I proved to myself by reading two random works

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Artists in the Third Reich swiftly learnt to adapt to Hitler’s traditionalist cultural diktats

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The key to the poet’s early obsession with girls’-school stories may lie with his sister Kitty

Against all the odds, the study of Classics is increasing in popularity — and for very good reasons

The salons of Vienna were key spaces for promoting the emancipation of women and Jews

The great critic’s letters reveal his struggles with anti-Semitism and disillusion with Marxism

Edward Said accused the poet of Orientalist prejudice — but he owed much to Muslim tradition