Fidel & Che: A Revolutionary Friendship by Simon Reid-Henry

After widespread protest, a Japanese High Court ruled that their similar scheme could not legally be enforced. Will people in the UK just roll over and allow the government to know all about them?

Haunted by Isherwood's shade, the British musician flirted with fascism, then became a hero to the youth of the communist East

Britain's most prolific historian remains generally ignored by the intelligentsia

Our 'national teddy bear' of an historian has got it wrong more times than he would like mentioned

There is an extraordinary fit between Japanese musical tastes and German Lieder

Two superb productions, The Norman Conquests at the Old Vic and Oedipus at the NT, explore the ties that bind ancient and modern drama

The faultlines in the plot of Blindness, a new movie adaptation of a classic novel, make it somewhat absurd

Little Dorrit's uncanny similarities to today's financial crisis makes it more suitable for adaptation than much of modern literature

The year the contemporary art juggernaut ground to a halt