Poetry and hope

Maurice Ravel has been an enduring part of my world, both as a performer and teacher. As a little girl I played the Mouvement de menuet from his Sonatine at a piano competition, which the renowned pia

Poetry and criticism are forever entwined

As British contemporary art beats all odds to remain a cauldron of inventiveness and passion, Carla Passino discovers which artists aged 40 or under are on the radar of forward-looking museum directors and curators

Creation and destruction, death and rebirth: Anselm Kiefer at eighty

RICHARD LINKLATER ON BRINGING LEGENDARY DIRECTORS BACK TO LIFE FOR NOUVELLE VAGUE

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