Plus Norman Ackroyd at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Plus the wryly comic Japanese film Shoplifters

Plus Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change

It is tragic that when it matters, Lieutenant Kerry’s voice always seems to be usurped by Candidate Kerry’s

Robert Plomin's Blueprint argues—correctly—that genes have a profound effect on human traits from intelligence to mental health. But what happens in our lives matters, too

Simon Jenkins's new history of Europe is peppered with counter-intuitive takes

The novelist on why if he wants to write about a plutocratic kleptocracy, he doesn't need to leave America

The newly-translated Kolyma Stories describe the unreal cruelty of Soviet labour camps

The Maigret series upends the conventions of the detective novel

Plus: the Clinton-Lewinsky saga dissected