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Rory Stewart explains his concerns about reading too much, the appeal of the 19 th Russian novelists and the brilliance of Tristram Shandy.

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’ ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Grangemouth opened in the mid-1920s to refine petroleum shipped to the docks from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s oilfields: ...

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

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