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A bracing conteporary account of the philosopher’s age-old prescription for living

3/5 Based on 70 pages of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, this is maddening and brilliant in equal measure

The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of happiness this month, from Austen’s Persuasion to a 21st-century sonnet

Special counsel prosecutors urged the US district court judge Tanya Chutkan to ignore Trump’s ‘skewed’ statistics

Radio and television producer who was head of plays at the BBC and steered productions of work by Harold Pinter, Alan Plater, Ibsen, Strindberg and Athol Fugard

Elizabeth Gilbert was wrong to stop her novel being published on account of its setting

Performance is on at the Old Vic until the end of the month

The novelist on the dangerous allure of Gone With the Wind, taking comfort in comedy and discovering George Eliot’s Middlemarch

This entertaining co-production of “Anna Karenina”, which transfers from Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre to Bristol Old Vic next month, “began as a dare”, said Fergus Morgan in The Stage. The British-Russian director Polina Kalinina was complaining to the Scottish writer Lesley Hart that Russian literary texts typically “suffered from staidness…