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Picasso’s mistreated muses

It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness…

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The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.

By Lucy Hughes-Hallett

In her debut novel, Roisin Lanigan’s caustic social commentary of renting in London is undercut by supernatural horror.

By George Monaghan

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By Zuzanna Lachendro, Michael Prodger, Kate Mossman and Zoë Huxford

In wartime Naples or Castro’s Cuba, the inconspicuous writer-traveller was a vivid chronicler of unseen worlds.

By John Gray

Theft, the Nobel Prize winner’s new novel, is full of wisdom and free of judgement.

By Elif Shafak

As David Sheff’s new biography reveals, decades of suspicion aimed at the provocative artist, musician and widow have obscured her…

By Kate Mossman

The past has been marked by periods of acceptance and intolerance of women’s bodily autonomy. Can it offer lessons for…

By Sophie McBain