Moby Dick
The man who’s destroying Spain
Madrid In the mid-1990s, Spain’s socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez saw his political career collapse under the weight of a…
Spirits from the vasty deep…
‘The sea defines us, connects us, separates us,’ Philip Hoare has written. His prize-winning Leviathan, then a collection of essays…
A terrible beauty
A.S. Byatt on the dark, deadly secrets lurking beneath a calm, white surface
Messy genius
Orson Welles would have been 100 this month. When he died in 1985, aged 70, the wonder was that he…
