Trapped in the hall of mirrors

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

SPIRITS MAFALDA QUINO Translated by Frank Wynne ...

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

A tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa, chronicler of failed utopias

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

Muriel Spark led an implausible life. Born into straitened circumstances in Edinburgh as the First World War came to an end, she shone at school before moving to one of the least glamorous corners of