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The booker longlisted title takes the debut fiction prize while Adam S Leslie, Sophie Elmhirst and Liz Hyder win fiction, nonfiction and children’s categories

Warning: this article contains minor spoilers for Gladiator II.

There are many reasons an ancient statue might accidentally lose its head — and some for its head to be severed on purpose.

Cheaters in the ancient Olympics were thrashed with a rod. But what is to be done when the cheater is the king?

How much is true, and how much of it is taking a healthy slice of historic liberty?

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday faced accusations of transphobia after lashing out at the snap election manifesto of a new left-wing coalition, while the far-right party leader insisted he would not question France's international commitments including on NATO. With less than two weeks before the first round of polling in…

Director Walter Sutcliffe’s modern-day production of Monteverdi’s take on Emperor Nero scores some hits but as many misses. Musically, though, it is outstanding

One of the oddest features of the culture right now is that the philosophy of Stoicism is a big thing. There’s a group called Modern Stoicism which runs a Stoic Week, that asks participants to live like a Stoic — and it turns out that it makes them feel good.…

Opinion | While he might not have Dante's instant, easy cool, Nero's arsenal makes up for it