Goethe’s achievement as artist, scientist and statesman

Legend and myth swirl Santorini, luring visitors by the million. An off-season visit finds locals grateful for the advantages its popularity brings, yet eager to find a more sustainable future

From ancient court to campaign HQ: Robert Icke’s Sophocles

This week’s dream: wonder and melancholy in eastern Turkey ...

A Marxist polemic against analytic philosophy

Whether winter-faded ferns, the spindly harvestman or the tyrannical stare of an irate chicken, through-lines from the prehistoric to our modern age are all around us in November, says John Lewis-Stempel