“All you gotta do is let it out/Nothing feels good as a blue note/If you just try to sing...” Surgically remove the cantankerous vibrato from Barbra Streisand and you have Canada’s Karin Plato. The ...

Plato, often hailed as the greatest philosopher who ever lived, has not, until now, been given a full-length biography. The problem is a lack of primary sources, says Robin Waterfield, a scholar and ...