‘Hitler diaries’ man was a spy
The journalist jailed for his part in the publication of the 'Hitler diaries' was an agent of East Germany's intelligence service, the Stasi, according to new evidence. By John Hooper.
Carve his name with pride
What is the continuing appeal of Michelangelo's David, the world's most out of proportion statue? Anton Gill tries to rescue the most famous sculpture in the world from over-familiarity in Il Gigante
The lamp of reason
Benjamin Woolley finds that James Hamilton cannot unravel the contradictions at the heart of Michael Faraday's life
Genius enchained by the body
Sheila Hale's provocative The Man Who Lost His Language tells the story of her husband's battle with a stroke and the state of British healthcare
Plot twist uncovers Austen brother’s portrait
A portrait of Jane Austen's younger brother, Edward, painted at a point when the family's prospects had been transformed in an outrageous plot twist worthy of her novels, will be unveiled today in the museum at her home in the Hampshire village of Chawton.
‘Midden’ becomes shrine
With the reverence that perhaps only Americans can bestow on a literary property, the home of CS Lewis, author of the Narnia books and dozens of other works, received its first visitors yesterday.
Young writers on trial
The teenage winners of a short crime story competition are much possessed by death, and have a penchant for criminal animals. Stephen Moss talks to the competition judges.
Cloned tree will restore a golden chain to Pushkin
A tree in Taganrog, near the southern city of Rostov on Don, was an inspiration to Alexander Pushkin. Then a fire turned it to ashes, and the region mourned its loss. Now the local union of businessmen has commissioned scientists to restore the tree by cloning.
The smell of success
June Rose's life of the famously malodorous Jacob Epstein, Daemons and Angels, avoids the awkward questions and leaves the sculptor smelling of roses
Answers from the attic
Carol Ann Lee's new biography of Anne Frank's father, The Hidden Life of Otto Frank, offers an intriguing explanation for her death
Between farce and misery
Jane Ridley's examination of Edwin Lutyens's life and marriage, The Architect and his Wife, leaves Andrew Saint unimpressed
Only the children count
Carol Ann Lee explores how Anne Frank's father managed her memory in The Hidden Life of Otto Frank
Ciao to all that
Stories of love and conquest from Sebastian O'Kelly and Justin Hill put flesh on the bones of Eritrea's recent past, says Aida Edemariam