ARTS AND HUMANITIES
How artists confront times of social stress
Modern African literature: contexts of formation
Truth and beauty in art: images of women through the ages
Sacred places: mystery, journey, perfection
Literary creativity in J.M. Coetzee’s South African writing
Cryptic crosswords: conspiracies, clues and compilers
The cinema of Alfred Hitchcock
The hill towns of central Italy
Henri Matisse on the Côte D’Azur
Murderers: we can’t take our eyes off them
The story of opera: a visual and aural feast
Reading Camus’s The Plague after Covid
Making sense of the Rome we see today
Saint-Saëns: 1921–2021: more than a carnival of animals
Art and iconoclasm: the cult of St Thomas Becket
Tolkien’s medieval middle-earth