Canal knowledge: an adventure through the waterways of Venice

How David Pleat became one of football’s most on-the-ball managers

John Sweeney and the ‘arrogant’ hero who took on Putin

‘There are many plaques in Hampstead – but many more could be added’

The eras of our ways: how will future historians remember us?

Pick of books to look out for in winter and spring

Meeting Trouble Half Way

Review: Coast of Teeth – Travels to English Seaside Towns in an Age of Anxiety

Author probes the moral transformation of Germany – and ‘its limits’

‘The vast majority of people in the UK today say they are not religious – and this isn’t a new thing’

Voice male

Tales of Hoffmans

Beating the odds

Glass war

Rocket man

Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a sophisticated ‘will she, won’t she’

Drawn to words

Li­tterary review

Stories for our times: books for Black History Month

Grade expectations