James Waddell

Why do people cleave so strongly to one side or another of the bibliographical culture war?

David Rundle's 'The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain' contains several strokes of adept codicology

Rather like horror movies, nativities have reflected Britons’ fears

On the art, temperament and ideology of the indexer

A collection of correspondence revealing the surprisingly privileged lives of 18th-century Huguenots

From the 1880s to the 1960s, cosmopolitan hangouts helped foster the avant-garde

How to break down the structure of a book

Rarely are they neutral spaces, as a new exhibition in Berlin shows

The vast publishing output of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century

“Small Island”—adapted from a novel by Andrea Levy that was published in 2004—unpicks the complex, vicious tangle of power relations between coloniser and colonised, insider and outsider

He was fascinated by psychology and haunted by mental collapse

The risk of staging a play about ennui is the possibility of instilling the same feelings in the audience

A new exhibition shows how two master miniaturists of the 16th century – Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver – captured their era

In a new musical, with songs by Kele Okereke, Brexit causes a relationship to change course

In his festive tale, released 175 years ago, Charles Dickens prescribed not Marxist revolution or Victorian beneficence but free trade and commerce

Eighteen years after Zadie Smith’s debut novel was published, its multicultural optimism is a distant memory

The Natural History Museum in London plays host to “The Wider Earth”, a play about its spiritual father

“It’s True, It’s True, It’s True” is a timely and haunting play fashioned out of 17th-century court transcripts and art history

A scorned production of “Tartuffe”, set in modern Los Angeles, holds important lessons for directors

In the shadow of the #MeToo movement, a new play dramatises the dark corners in a world of bright lights