All Edgar Speyer’s good works could not save him amid the hysteria of the First World War

Two recently reissued novels by Aldous Huxley confront the reader with stark metaphysical truths

Conceptualism was briefly a vital response to commercialism in modern art. Then it ran out of ideas

As the BBC version of The Night Manager shows, the novelist has become his own tribute band

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

Dominic Dromgoole bids farewell to a lively decade at the Globe with a relaxed and tricksy Tempest

The life force has vanished from the capital’s classical music scene in recent years. Who is to blame?