The drama of his painting and the wildness of his life have made Caravaggio one of the most intriguing and influential of all the great Italian painters. Patrick Wright investigates competing interpretations of Caravaggio's work, as a new exhibition on Caravaggio and his contemporaries, The Genius of Rome, opens at the Royal
Academy. Plus the poetry of Paul Celan : can new translations into English capture the voice of one of the last century's most haunting writers?