Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A lost brother: My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is, by Paul Stanbridge, reviewed

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Grief leads us down some strange roads. Few, though, can be as peculiar as those charted by Paul Stanbridge in…

The 17th-century Huron chief Kondiaronk can still teach us valuable lessons

11 December 2021 9:00 am

Ten years ago, David Graeber was a leading figure of the Occupy Wall Street movement. He and his fellow protesters…

‘May Day’, 1866, by Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron: the Leonardo of photography

21 November 2015 9:00 am

Ruskin dismissed Julia Margaret Cameron’s photographs as untrue. But, argues Martin Gayford, the same could be said of any picture

The Clouded Yellow, especially vulnerable to cold, wet weather, is rare in Britain and usually confined to the South Downs and south coast

We all love butterflies — so why are we wiping them out?

1 August 2015 9:00 am

Last month, at Edinburgh School of Art, I was interested to come across a student who’d chosen Marlowe’s Dr Faustus…

Forget the Germans. It’s the French who made classical music what it is

6 December 2014 9:00 am

The poor French. When we think of classical music, we always think of the Germans. It’s understandable. Instinctive. Ingrained. But…