Five (and a bit) steps to a better life: What philosophy tells us

Unthinkable: Do we need more books promoting self-mystification? Yes, we do

Life through a screen: Cinematic space and social distancing

Can films inspire us as we navigate the limits of confinement via computers and phones?

Bruegel: one of the most evocative representations of winter

Art in focus: you’ll have to make your way to Vienna to view Hunters in the Snow

'My stepfather always told me you can’t trust anyone but family'

Trey Edward Shults has a gift for imagining the worst and his latest film is a horror in tune with these dystopian times

An Irishman’s Diary – A Further (but not Farther) Reading from the Stylebook of Leviticus

Saving Hieronymus Bosch from the devil

The powerful, disturbing work of the Dutch painter, who died 500 years ago, tells us a great deal about the anxieties of his time

Nazi claim sparks Krakow-Vienna row over Bruegel painting

Poland claims work was one of national treasures looted during second World War

Weekend in . . . Lisbon

The Portuguese city has been spruced up without compromising its antiquity and is full of cool bars and quirky restaurants