The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in AmericaJAMES M. O’TOOLE(HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 336 PP, £29.95)Tablet bookshop ...

A recent YouGov poll in Germany found that while 79 per cent of the population thought Vladimir Putin was “very” or “quite” ...

The Israeli government’s plan to expand its military offensive in Gaza met condemnation from Church agencies in the Holy Land ...

The Marian shrine at Lourdes now has more young people wanting to push wheelchairs around than frail pilgrims to sit in them.

Retrograde feels consciously indebted to David Mamet’s Speed-The-Plow (1988), a ­previous three-hander set in a Hollywood ...

A Story ofLove and Connection in 10 SongsJOHN HARRIS(JOHN MURRAY, 272 PP, £16.99)Tablet bookshop price £15.29 • tel 020 7799 ...

What do you do if you’re a ­musical parent with 14 children? The answer – if you’re the Bevans, or have ever seen The Sound ...

How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth CenturyOWEN HATHERLEY(ALLEN LANE, 608 PP, £35)tablet bookshop ...

A glimpse into the darkest corners of Hugo’s mind through his fantastical ink landscapes, caricatures and bulging sketchbooks is now possible thanks to “Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo ...

A Filipino bishop warned migrant workers against halting their remittances to the Philippines as a form of protest at the Marcos government’s decision to ...

I speak to Jonathan Sumption in the kind of the room I would like to be resurrected in. We’re in the small, elegant study on ...

There is a moment in the latest episode of the (rightly) lauded sci-fi TV series Severance, about people with split ...