TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: The latest issue features ‘Fighting Over King Arthur’ – Marion Turner on a legend’s global appeal.

A man of the world

The versatility of Arthur and his legends By Marion Turner

All the lonely people

Nigerian scammers and their targets By Sally Hayden

Matches struck in the dark

How William Empson viewed Virginia Woolf’s diaries By Mark Thompson

Pain and transformation

Frida Kahlo, iconized: ‘I would not like to become famous’ By Miranda France