As Wotton saw it, England had to offer its support. Already, Venice’s struggle was threatening to become a European conflict.

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) gets top billing in the subtitle of Hard Streets but he’s not the star of the show. The book ...

Primo Levi (1919–87), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75), Italo Calvino (1923–85) – and Leonardo Sciascia (1921–89), the subject ...

The depiction of ordinary places, and of the changing seasons and skies which shadow or illuminate them, is at the core of ...

The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson ...

Bodelsen, who died in 2021, is better known for Think of a Number (1968), a thriller whose Rubik’s Cube complexity elevated a genre staple, the bank heist gone awry, into a nuanced drama with moral as ...

Where Rituals Come Home to Roost - The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia by Sonia Faleiro ...

Romantic fiction has deep roots. In a description of King Arthur’s court written around 1155, the poet Wace presented his ...

The Kremlin’s Long Reach - The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland ...

The European was the Marquis de Morès – explorer, adventurer and far-right demagogue – who aimed to forestall British ...

The Cambridge Footlights, the university’s comedy club, has not greatly altered its modus operandi since its first production in 1883. During termtime, the club puts on sketch shows and a pantomime, ...

Passage to a Better World - The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein; Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon ...