The British Museum is displaying some of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance

While Chopin’s bicentenary is marked far and wide, there’s little mention of Schumann’s

Newman's Unquiet Grave: Portrait of a Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell

On Evil by Terry Eagleton

A King's Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger & Master Spy by Simon Burrows

The Oxford Book of Parodies by John Gross

Final Demands by Frederic Raphael

There is a battle between old and new media in this General Election - but which will win?

Our Mole says the new Policing and Crime Act has made life more dangerous for sex workers

Nearly twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia remains markedly different to its Western neighbours. There are signs, however, that the values it aspires to are increasingly European