How a little-known benefactor established an academic series of immeasurable value

Digitally streamed plays and live Zoom performances have arisen as temporary solutions to the crisis. But practitioners are preparing some long-term changes, too

With performers facing pressure from all sides, and working against a backdrop darker than the darkest satire, how to rescue the art form?

During lockdown, piles of discarded books sprung up everywhere: outside houses, ranging along low walls, balanced precariously atop gate posts. Leafing through them set my imagination alight

A new documentary takes the viewer on an exquisite underwater adventure with one of biology’s strangest creations

Plus a new season at the Theatre Royal

Kate Summerscale's new history is her most empathetic work to date

Greer was and is far from perfect—but the Female Eunuch, published fifty years ago, will forever remain part of the canon

Medieval Catholicism wasn’t the enemy of progress, it was its engine

A deftly-rendered history refuses to simplify a messy and tragic period

The astonishing secrets of fungal life raise profound questions

We need to learn from a successful, grown-up, modern nation argues a new book by John Kampfner