Simon Schama reflects on a life in culture - and its enduring power in shaping our world. From The Handmaid's Tale to The Thick of It, how has art defined what matters to us all?

The caption for a picture of Simon Schama at Auschwitz in an article in Life & Arts on March 29 should have specified he was standing in front of the Auschwitz 2-Birkenau gatehouse.

That’s been the major question behind Simon Schama’s new series over the past ... but as a difference between cultural life and death,” he says. “It’s there that we’ll get the best ...

Simon Schama speaks to three influential artists ... Nadya Tolokonnikova and Margaret Atwood, to uncover the personal motivations behind their work and activism, their sense of why art matters ...

It has often been the case that just when our brains are feeling contorted by a political or historical conundrum, Simon Schama has been ... “It’s a kind of life or death of a certain kind ...

SIMON SCHAMA, HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR: Thank you for having me. SARAH FERGUSON: How profound is this moment in historic terms, a decision by the White House that so clearly benefits Russia.