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Private journals kept by the scientist and humanitarian icon show prejudiced attitudes towards the people he met while travelling in Asia The publication of Albert Einsteins private diaries detailing his tour of Asia in the 1920s reveals the theoretical physicist and humanitarian icons racist attitudes to the people he met on his travels, particularly the

It is inscribed with the disturbing information that "the bynding of this booke is all that remains of my dear friende Jonas Wright, who was flayed alive by the Wavuma on the Fourth Day of August, 1632".

The offices of the London Review of Books are situated on the top two floors of a Georgian townhouse in the shadow of the British Museum. To reach them, you either brave the claustrophobically small lift or walk up five flights of brown-carpeted stairs, before emerging in a light-filled room containing a scattering of terrifically

Emergency surgery on her spine led to months of enforced silence for the former 10,000 Maniacs singer-songwriter. But rather than take it easy, shes been raising her teenage daughter, campaigning against fracking and has a new album out

Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Norwegian soprano, accompanied exquisitely by pianist James Baillieu, revealed a finely graded expressive range in this chamber music venue in a programme that included Berg, Grieg and Schubert