From the author of Apollo’s Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an intimate portrait of the man behind the mythology, set against the vibrant backdrop…

Arguably the greatest choreographer who ever lived, George Balanchine was one of the cultural titans of the twentieth century--the New York Times called him "the Shakespeare of dancing." His radical…

In an age in which the lack of independent public intellectuals has often been sorely lamented, the historian Tony Judt played a rare and valuable role, bringing together history and…