Despite the retreat from faith, many modern composers are inspired by true spirituality

Mme de Staël's works are once again being read, but she deserves to be remembered as a realist as well as a fabulist

Family and friends matter to David Hockney, while George Stubbs was fascinated by the animal kingdom

Russell T. Davies’s banal sanitisation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is typical of modern censorship

A superb new film vividly portrays the use and abuse of scripture by slavers to justify their evil acts

Serial killer, misanthrope, misogynist — Richard III gives Ralph Fiennes plenty to work with

The Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov is accident prone but a worthy successor to Horowitz and Richter