Kenneth Clark: ‘His ambition was to restore the human body in the public mind as an object of myth and wonder.’ Photograph: BBCKenneth Clark: ‘His ambition was to restore the human body in the public mind as an object of myth and wonder.’ Photograph: BBC100 best nonfiction books of all timeArt and design booksKenneth Clark’s survey of the nude from the Greeks to Picasso foreshadows the critic’s towering claims for humanity in his later seminal work, Civilisation Read More...
FamilyEric Lomax's book, The Railway Man, about his experience as a Japanese prisoner of war has inspired a major new film. But his first family were written out of the story by Lomax himself. Joanna Moorhead talks to his daughter, CharmaineWatch The Railway Man, which goes on general release in the new year, and you'll leave the cinema feeling you know all about the complicated, scarred individual at its centre: Eric Lomax, who was tortured by the Japanese during the second world war and eventually rescued from his torment through the love of his wife Patti. Read More...
Crosswords This article is more than 10 years old100 years of crosswords: the first appeared in New York on 21.12.1913This article is more than 10 years oldArthur Wynne left Liverpool for the US, left farming for journalism and then left millions delighting in solving his inventionDevotees of all kinds of crossword (cruciverbalists, some people coyly call them) will today be saluting the memory of a Liverpool man who emigrated to the United States, abandoned onion farming for journalism, became editor of the New York World, and on 21 December 21, 1913 filled a spare space in his paper with a device that he called a word cross, thus ensuring his name would be honoured today as the inventor of crosswords. Read More...