The biographer of Dr Johnson's gift to posterity was to establish the latter as one of English literature's towering figures

The mawkish cult of Rabbie distracts us from the beauty of the Scottish poet's exquisite verse

The West Yorkshire Playhouse’s production of King Lear is a pacy triumph

The boom years lasted so long that writers and artists lost their nose for trouble

Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is stylish and plausible, but its lack of spectacle means it won’t go viral

The National Gallery’s new Leonardo show illuminates his quest for painterly perfection

The age of megalomaniac conductors seems to be over—and about time too

Minkowski enabled Einstein to supersede Newton. Today’s scientists must emulate them

"One Elephant, Two Elephant" and four other new poems

Book review of The People of the Book: Philosemitism in England from Cromwell to Churchill by Gertrude Himmelfarb