Plus: the Clinton-Lewinsky saga dissected

Plus: House of Cards' creator Beau Willimon's The First

The author has a talent for zeroing in on emotional secrets

Plus: the heartwarming documentary Science Fair

Plus a gender bending Troilus and Cressida at the RSC

Plus: Patrick Heron at the Turner Contemporary

250 years since Laurence Sterne's death, his "Tristam Shandy" is as puzzling and entertaining as ever—and not only for its rude jokes

The latest book from the great feminist thinker is a total muddle

Thatcher's verdict rings true of this remarkable politician

Despite the international community's lacklustre response, Syrians are responding to the destruction of their country resiliently—and with desperate black humour