Starting out on his quest into his family history, Joe Dunthorne doesn’t know what to ask his grandmother about ...

In this country, trial by jury is constitutive of a fair, credible, legitimate system of criminal justice. It is ...

The intensity of locating something so small and quick requires both force and passivity. Many birders spend long ...

Ravenna lies seventy miles south of Venice and five miles inland from the Adriatic. Julius Caesar marshalled his ...

In the current exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the blending of Roman and Byzantine art is represented in spectacular form by ‘faithful copies of the ancient mosaics of Ravenna’ ...

Sarah Howe’s new collection, Foretokens, will be published next month.

The manosphere is confusing, because it’s a place where one can find both benign advice about protein consumption ...

Parker noted a bevy of plays dealing with Prohibition, the ‘Irish question’ (‘what a rough day it will be for the drama when ...

Until the arrival of Adichie’s generation, it had seemed impossible to speak of or understand the ‘African novel’ outside the ...

Dread Beat an’ Blood, Johnson’s second book of poems, appeared in 1975. It includes ‘Doun de Road’, which addressed the rise ...

David Foster Wallace said that he spoke like ‘Jimmy Stewart on acid’ (though Lynch’s addictions were the diner-appropriate kind: coffee, sugar, cigarettes). Whatever the contradiction – mainstream ...

Payne Knight’s greatest desire was that the British Museum would provide the public free access to an unrivalled resource for the study of antiquity and of art. His collection was, first and foremost, ...