A new york state of mind

THE ARTS

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

The shared struggles of Hieronymous Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge

ILLUMINATORS THE ART OF THE SCRIBE Practical ...

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

Colm Tóibín meditates on Pat Steir’s painting ‘Night’