The unknown Americans
US artists of the interwar years can at last be appreciated in a revealing Oxford exhibition
The referendum Remainers won
The similarities between the 1975 and 2016 EU referendums are more striking than the differences
In my end is my beginning
An 'alternative' mortician is on a quest for the West to deal with death
Publish and be damned
Blake Morrison's new novel on a literary executor's tussle over a poet's posthumous publication
Tormented prophets of apocalyptic art
Schiele and Soutine both used art to express pathological suffering and confront death
The eye homes in — he homes out
Andreas Gursky’s disquieting yet sublime photographs form the first show at the refurbished Hayward
New Year confusions
We celebrated our New Year on January 1 but the Chinese will do so this month. Why the difference?
Family saga in war and peace
The story of a family over two generations becomes embedded in the history of the 20th century in Mark Mazower's What You Did Not Tell
Hopes and fears of all the years
The little town of Bethlehem has been irrevocably linked with Western visions of the Holy Land, but Nicholas Blincoe shows there is much more to its history
Notes from the departure lounge
Robert McCrum's Every Third Thought asks: how, when, and where are we going after death?