‘A ghostly memory of a master race’
The Commonwealth Games begin next week, but does anyone care about the Commonwealth anymore? Five writers from member countries offer their personal views. Here Richard Flanagan writes on the view from Australia.
Never mind the Pollocks
She lived a life of sex, privilege and money - but all she wanted was credibility within the male-dominated art world. Stuart Jeffries on Peggy Guggenheim, millionaire collector.
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.
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
‘The poem didn’t shock me then and doesn’t now’
Margaret Drabble recalls her experience of being a witness in the Gay News trial of James Kirkup.
Comrades fall out in Russia’s battle of the dissidents
Former ally and fellow anti-Soviet activist launches bitter attack on 'myth' surrounding Nobel winner Solzhenitsyn.
Who really turned Anne Frank over to the Nazis?
Dutch historians investigate new claims to identity of person who revealed hiding place of Jewish family.
In search of lost times
When the brilliant Renaissance scholar Sir John Hale had a stroke at the age of 69 he was written off by doctors as a hopeless case. His wife, Sheila Hale, refused to give up. In an extract from her moving new book, she recounts her painful battles with the NHS and her search to rediscover the husband she once knew.
Desperately seeking love – and a book deal
American psychologist Robert Epstein has received more than 300 letters in response to his appeal for a woman to participate in an experiment in which he and the successful applicant will try to fall in love with each other.
Kings and country
Charles Drazin tells the story of Britain's greatest movie mogul, the Hungarian-born Alexander Korda
China’s Lady Chatterley stirs passions over censorship
Daughter of woman who inspired erotic novel sues to defend mother's reputation.
Bridget Jones meets her match
Author Helen Fielding has found a new kind of singleton on the streets of LA.
In praise of the cul-de-sac
20th Century French Poems is a superb anthology examining how Cartesian certainties were abandoned in both subtle and violent ways