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Found in Translation: Simon Willis welcomes Peter Stamm's clinical account of a disturbing passion...  read more »

This Season: for his classical music choice, Michael Church selects two productions by David McVicar, including an Olympian one...  read more »

From a first visit to the Little Theatre, Bolton, to the role of chief theatre critic on the Times and beyond, few people have seen as many plays as Irving Wardle. In this memoir, he distils what he has learnt...  read more »

The great Mexican novelist and essayist Carlos Fuentes has died aged 83. Two years ago, he wrote this piece for our series Authors on Museums. “Museums, like lovers," he said, "can lose their charms”, but when he returned to an old haunt in Xalapa, Mexico, he found he was smitten all over again...  read more »

This Season: Nicholas Barber selects "Prometheus", Ridley Scott's bid to save the "Alien" franchise from its sequels...   read more »

Notes on a Voice: this year marks Charles Dickens's 200th anniversary. Emma Hogan tunes into a mind teeming with other people's thoughts...  read more »

Mood Music: With the exam season approaching, Matthew Sweet picks tunes to go with hard work—or blind panic...  read more »

Six Good Books: Maggie Fergusson's choices include golden essays with a northern compass and a Holocaust novel with humour...  read more »

At the Cinema: Tom Shone details the latest qualities for a superhero—a super-agent, an accent coach and a British passport...  read more »

This Season: Tim de Lisle looks forward to the ageless sound of the Beach Boys, back on tour in their jubilee year...  read more »