She's one of America's brightest and brashest literary talents—and My Year of Rest and Relaxation is another bold assault on the status quo

Plus the Tricycle relaunches as the Kiln

City of Light tells the story of the French capital's 19th century reinvention


Calment’s extraordinary longevity proves the trick to long life is a relaxed attitude towards the rules

Plus pondering the Universe in York

Over the last 200 years Britain and the US have gone to war—directly or indirectly—many times

Plus the CBSO play Dvorak's New World Symphony

New memoir Room to Dream, co-authored with Kristine McKenna, suggest just being David Lynch is an art in and of itself

The Ancient philosopher has much to teach us today

Andrew Adonis and Will Hutton dig out the deeper causes of discontent