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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 »

Authors on Museums: The Ashmolean has everything from mummies to a modernist extension, and has played three distinct parts in the life of John Carey, professor of English...  read more »

Julian Barnes explores the house where Sibelius lived, died, wrote much of his music—and spent decades not writing, or not publishing ...   read more »

The novelist Ali Smith feels her spirits lift as she explores the borderlands between fact and fantasy at the Villa San Michele on Capri ...   read more »

In Afghanistan not even the museum pieces are safe. Rory Stewart, writer, explorer and politician, returns to Kabul to capture the perilous existence—and enduring power—of its treasures ...  read more »

Denmark’s oldest museum is all about a single artist. Alan Hollinghurst, author of “The Line of Beauty”, revisits a temple of idiosyncrasy ...  read more »

As the author of “War Horse”, Mr Morpurgo has seen the battlefields of Flanders many times. But In Flanders Fields Museum still moves him ...  read more »

For years now, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has been partly closed for rebuilding. William Fiennes likes it better that way—less Gallery Fatigue, more time for Vermeer and Rembrandt ...  read more »

The British Library’s Ritblat Gallery is a treasure trove of manuscripts. Andrew Motion, chairman of the Booker Committee, explains its magic ...  read more »

Long ago Margaret Drabble fell for the colours of Florence. Now it’s the semi-precious stones that especially delight her ...  read more »