The letters of the great writer reveal affairs with both sexes but also an intense intellectual and spiritual life

When it comes the the novel, big isn't always beautiful

Alexander Calder’s mobiles display both a musical stateliness and a satisfying sense of equlibrium    

Now a play about Islamic State has been cancelled, we can’t question its director’s dubious assumptions

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

Rachel Cusk’s version of Euripides’s Medea boldly reworks the eternal theme of domestic disharmony

A performance of a modern Israeli classic in a run-down German city put the world’s woes in perspective