‘The Raven addresses
an assembly of animals’
c.1590, attributed to the
Mughal court artist Miskin
Ed Husain — p44
Steven Poole reveals that
opium has been used to
treat the war-wounded ever
since Neolithic times
A.N. Wilson is enchanted
by a life of Francis of Assisi,
told in a number of poetic
vignettes
Laura Freeman finds Marie
Tussaud a delightful guide
to the mad, macabre world
of revolutionary France
Tanya Gold argues that
Kevin Spacey should be
allowed to return to acting
Lloyd Evans finds Martin
McDonagh’s new play
mean-spirited, muddled,
idiotic and puerile
Kate Chisholm discovers
that, in Urdu, the liver (and
not the heart) is the
location of the deepest
feelings© THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM