Can we please leave great art alone?

The mythology surrounding creative and scientific breakthroughs

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

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SPIRITS MAFALDA QUINO Translated by Frank Wynne ...

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