Vaclav Havel provided a stirring example of leadership in challenging times, whether picking generals or asking citizens to ‘live in the truth’

The great art critic John Berger died this week - he may have been the last of his kind

Lisa Godson column: Too often, the distant past is celebrated at the expense of the present

Artist Rita Duffy’s shop in Dublin is selling mementoes of the 1916 Centenary for €5

Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’

Brought to Book Q&A: Greek novelist and poet on Emily Dickinson and Robert Mouzil

Witnessing the highly pressurised construction of the immersive city of Mahagonny for six performances of Brecht’s opera is impressive – it is amazing what you can achieve without planning permission

I discovered many of Weill’s works by following the trail of his tremulous-toned wife

‘I write in a very troubling manner that I wouldn’t advise anyone to adopt’

‘If you ever stop deconstructing God and then reconstructing God, you get an idol’

In these three edited extracts from his latest book, Rod Stoneman examines the real story behind sometimes misleading photographs of Che Guevara, the fall of Berlin and Ernest Hemingway

A new translation of the stories of Nikolai Leskov confirms that although different, he is the equal of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Turgenev

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