Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. Her earliest talent was for invisibility. To the men who surrounded her father, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, she was a gloomy, awkward girl.

When Mike Pickering became resident DJ at the Hacienda in Manchester it was an arts venue where people often sat around listening to poetry. But he helped turn it into a cathedral of the acid house movement, packed to its black and yellow pillars with people raving, covered in sweat, with eyes like saucers.

Although it is often claimed that religion was the main force preventing the advancement of medical knowledge and the practice of proper medicine in the Middle Ages, the Church actually played an important part in educating the laity — and perhaps especially the illiterate — about their bodies.

In Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), Sigmund Freud observed: The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it … He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.

After almost 30 years, several legal battles and a few death threats, Marc Restellini’s catalogue raisonné of Amedeo Modigliani’s oil paintings is finally published today (14 April) by the art historian and curator’s Institut Restellini, distributed by Yale University Press.

“Europe! Europe! Europe!” That’s what tens of thousands of us chanted on the banks of the Danube on Sunday as Péter Magyar addressed the jubilant crowd. On a record turnout of 77%, Hungarians have delivered a political earthquake, giving Magyar’s Tisza party the first real opportunity in 16 years to dismantle the system built by Viktor Orbán.

The only answer to the question ‘What connects Brian Epstein, Frank Lloyd Wright, Portofino and Stevenage?’ is ‘Portmeirion’, a conceptualised village on the north Wales coast. You could call it a folly, except it is living, not dead; and it exerts a lasting fascination.

In the early years of the 20th century, a young philosopher named Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) set himself the task of revitalising German Jewry – of bringing German Jews in from what he saw as the periphery of assimilation to the centre of a living faith.

The author talks through her background in German literature, her inclination towards cultural history and possible biographies of 20th-century women.

I received this book for review on the same day that Dorothea Tanning was making headlines in the auction world, breaking records with the sale at Christie’s of a tiny but key early work for more than £4 million.