Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled
The absorbing BBC documentary examines artists’ engagement with illicit themes — and our reactions to them
The classicist on why the study of Greece and Rome matters in the Netflix age — and how to beat Boris Johnson in a debate
From classical ideals to disquieting bodies, Beard explores the contentious history of the nude in art
The Classicist explains how shoemaker Manolo Blahnik makes masterpieces for the feet
Mary Beard whirls round Maharashtra, Seville, Venice and offers an an interesting angle on iconoclasm
A pithy exploration of misogyny’s tangled cultural roots
From Gillian Tett’s ‘The Silo Effect’ to an interview with Tracy Chevalier
Instead of counter-attacking her critics head-on, this professor and journalist chose to intellectually dismantle online misogynists
Mary Beard is an engaging guide to ancient Greece and Rome
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