Visions and leviathans

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

What’s in a Year: A Countryman’s Tale Through ...

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

ILLUMINATORS THE ART OF THE SCRIBE Practical ...

Exhibition of the week Seeing Each Other: Portraits ...

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