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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life: Selected LettersTranslated and edited by Robert SpaethlingFaber 25, pp479 'Several blushing policemen came, and hid their faces for very shame,' wrote D.H. Lawrence of the scandalised reception to his frank and fleshy paintings. With Mozart's letters it is the scholars who have blushed. The composer's rude outpourings have never been thought

From Caravaggio to Edward Said and Black Panther, this astonishing collection of essays explores art, politics and belonging A young Gambian man, lets call him D, waits in Syracuse. He arrived in Italy eight months previously, having been smuggled into the country by boat from Libya. D has an easy-going, intelligent manner an unexpected

Lead singer of the hard rock group Bad Company The vocalist and songwriter Brian Howe, who has died of a heart attack aged 66, became best known for his work with the British hard rock group Bad Company, which he joined in 1986 as the replacement for the departed singer Paul Rodgers, formerly vocalist with

Glasgow theology students have been warned about brutal crucifixion images. But such paintings remind us of the grisly truth about death Glasgow University is giving theology students what the Daily Mail calls trigger warnings about potentially upsetting images of the crucifixion. The theology department concedes that its course about Christ in cinema contains graphic scenes

Thirty-three states maintain laws tied to exposure or transmission, many developed long before the illness was understood Robert Suttle was 30 when he was arrested and imprisoned for the felony of intentional exposure to the Aids virus. He had met the man at a gay club on New Years Eve 2007 and they had quickly