1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (172+ words) Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, until 24 May Viollet-le-Duc kept superhuman working hours: 6 a.m. to midnight. And this show, spanning four floors, is testament to his prodigious use of drawing as a multi-pronged tool to observe, (re)create and seek truth....

5+ hour, 15+ min ago  (685+ words) Last week, I had a commuter-hell day. The'Great Western train to London was standing room only, horribly delayed, and the tea trolley was a non-runner. The Circle line broke down, and black cabs were rarer than an outsider winning the…...

23+ hour, 54+ min ago  (365+ words) Imagine being a cat in the body of a dog. Every move would feel wrong Morris was already writing pieces for the local press from school at Lancing, where sex with boys was fun but "nothing fitted. He joined up…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (418+ words) Looking back in anguish: Good Good Loving, by Yvvette Edwards, reviewed'The Spectator Australia Close to death, Ellen recalls her 49-year marriage to philandering Clyde and wonders what she's done to deserve her children's censure Ellen is at the end of…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago  (256+ words) The caf" is a marvellous construct, as the arcade is. It exists so that spoilt Regency women, the Chelsea hags of then, could shop without walking in horseshit. I know how they feel. It isn't lunch in the common sense…...

23+ hour, 54+ min ago  (446+ words) She did Shadowlands the C.S. Lewis play with Nigel Hawthorne (directed by Australia's Elijah Moshinsky) and found the stress of the production considerable. Then she gave an extraordinary performance as the mother of Prince Philip, a nun, a saint, an absolutely…...

9+ hour, 53+ min ago  (350+ words) In this article, I seek to trace a continuum between the distant past of my homeland, Iran, and its imagined future. It is an effort to revisit the legacy of Iranian women's struggle for freedom and to reflect on their…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (101+ words) The Candidates Tournament, in which eight players compete for the chance to become the next world championship challenger, began in Cyprus on 29 March, and runs until 15 April. The Women's Candidates event takes place simultaneously. More information, and the official commentary…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (460+ words) Yesterday, as I found myself ogling X again, the little voice really scraped the bottom of the barrel: "Now that you're here,' it told me, "you really may as well get stuck in. Have a long session, go on. It'll…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (249+ words) Classic rock used to be an American radio genre made up of bluesy guitar bands from the past. It spawned Fathers" Day compilation albums, a magazine and endless lists where "Stairway to Heaven", "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Free Bird" argued among…...