An inescapable fact of 20th-century classical music is its overwhelming whiteness. But the buried history of black composers is coming to light... more »
What lifted Anne Frank's diary above so many other accounts of the Holocaust? Her remarkably intimate descriptions of coming of age in a kind of cage... more »
The political class feared John Ruskin’s anticapitalist thinking. “If we do not crush him … a moral floodgate may fly open and drown us all”... more »