There’s advice on pressure cooking and butter-making, plus simple recipes for family meals, Mediterranean vegan dishes and south Asian specialities

The veteran journalist Fergal Keane describes the horror of witnessing atrocities worldwide – and his mystifying compulsion to return for more

Donna Freed finally learns the truth about her biological parents, whose insurance fraud in 1960s America resembled the plot of Double Indemnity

Tom Harper exposes deep-grained criminality at the Met, including actively assisting violent offenders and stealing thousands from the public purse

Lenin and Mussolini were chief among 20th-century leaders who owed their initial success purely to chance, says Ian Kershaw

Twin brothers sponsor a radical building programme in postwar Britain – but the collapse of a tower block raises questions of conscience and accountability

The vast majority of significant finds are now unearthed by amateurs – including the Nebra Sky Disc, the centrepiece of the British Museum’s recent Stonehenge exhibition

Even if notions of beauty are treacherously fugitive, and even if interpretations of history are nowadays subject to revision by…

Do you ever think about the ground beneath your feet? I do. Having read a number of popular science books…

The text of this well illustrated book is mostly John James Audubon’s, from journals unpublished in his lifetime. Part I…

The standard complaint of anyone doing a Christmas gift books guide is that the books aren’t up to much. I…

Nowhere in this extraordinary prison memoir do we find out why Fatos Lubonja was sentenced to imprisonment in Spaç, the…

This profound and emotion-laden book ends, as did the first world war, in hope, and no little catharsis. It begins,…

At Tate Britain this year, for the first time since 1926, nine of John Singer Sargent’s brilliantly painted and affectionately…

Novels about art are often strange, vain affairs. After all, writing about artists, especially fictional ones, can seem like a…

‘In Argentina,’ Mariana Enriquez writes in Our Share of Night, ‘they toss bodies at you.’ It is an arresting, chilling…

It is hard to imagine why anyone should want to write one, but if there has to be a history…

Fleeing the revolution and forced to scrape a living as taxi drivers and seamstresses, the exiles were generally a melancholy crowd, united by mutual loathing

Greil Marcus chooses seven celebrated songs, ranging from the 1960s to the present, to explore the diverse sources of Dylan’s inspiration

People no longer moan about most of the things that bothered them during my childhood. You don’t hear old folk…

‘To my mind,’ Renoir once wrote, ‘a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful and pretty. There are too many unpleasant…