Why are we so resented? It's not hard to work out

He ended his life a British national treasure but Eric Hobsbawm never lost faith in his youthful communism

Plus Gidon Kremer at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Plus Magdalene Odundo

Plus Richard Billingham's unflinching Ray & Liz

The battle over Kafka's legacy is worthy of one of the author's surreal novels

A new biography reveals Nietzsche to be a perfect gentleman—shy, attentive, and a little whimsical

The legendary critic on what’s been keeping him entertained—from French lovers to warring dons...

The Everything But the Girl singer's comic take on the clothes she didn't wear and the boys she never went out with

The burnout, the slob, the daydreamer and the slacker—which could you be?