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For many of us, the run-up to Valentine’s Day is spent seeking out the least cringe-worthy card in the shop to gift to our significant other, and show them how we really feel. But, unfortunately, Hallmark rhymes rarely mine the depths of love and desire.

Martin Jennings – whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin – has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bomb was designed and built, forever changed how people view the world, adding a new…

No man is an island, as John Donne wrote in his oft-quoted 1624 poem, but veteran singer-songwriter John Legend will sink or swim on his own when he takes to the stage on his current tour. Playing without his band and backing singers, his "An Evening with John Legend" concerts…

A sharp and lucid case for gaining wisdom through adversity rather than books

The author on Vladimir Nabokov’s footnotes, James Baldwin’s essays and returning to Hilary Mantel’s A Place of Greater Safety

If the last few years have taught us anything, writes Robert Dessaix, it’s that happiness and sadness, even misery can go together

Fiona Lensvelt has your guide to the best last-minute buys before Christmas — there’s something for everyone here...

The great love poet is here locked in an anxious wrestle with his religious conscience