An unpublished story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, with a commentary by Peter Swaab

Twenty Questions with Katherine Rundell

Why fertility rates are collapsing around the world

How writing freed Anita Brookner from despair

Searching for connection in a post-government dystopia

The making of a cross-cultural musical classic

A romantic novelist who became a figure of fun

Vivid life in an iconic Greek tomb painting

Bar-room politics and rising resentment in 1930s Berlin

A lifelong love affair with books, libraries and ancient manuscripts

What is the worst job you ever had? ‘Painting the underside of an asbestos roof in a heatwave while standing on a plank with no guard rails.’ Twenty Questions with Michael Rosen

There has been talk since the very start of the current US presidency about the echoes of ancient Rome in Mr Trump’s image, in his political and military

A humbling from the scammers

Living in the shadow of a half-brother’s death

Art, money and doomsday preppers on a simmering Greek island

Who has influenced your writing? ‘Everyone I am related to, by blood and marriage.’ Twenty Questions with Elizabeth McCracken

The forward march of British poetry

A collection of premonitions and varieties of provenance

Jessica Mitford: English aristocrat to American activist

One of the most extraordinary collections of ancient sculpture in Rome is the Albani-Torlonia collection – a combination of what is left of the eighteenth-century collection (now largely dispersed) assembled by Cardinal Alessandro Albani, with the advice of J. J. Winckelmann, and the nineteenth-c...