I drive to Wiltshire on a rare sunny English summer’s day to interview V S Naipaul in his country home. All his books, fiction and non-fiction, are to be reissued (by Picador in Britain and Knopf in ...

A phrase like ‘fortress England’ seems to echo down the centuries, and turns up again in This Little World, Nandini Das’s new study of identity and belonging, cross-border migration, assimilation and ...

Born into raffish Polish-Russian gentry in 1870, Vera Gedroits resisted convention from an early age. Passionate and rebellious, she wore cropped hair and trousers and, aged fourteen, persuaded her ...

‘The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.’ Thus, more than a century ago, Lytton Strachey began Eminent Victorians. In fact, Strachey offers a model of how to ...

Having been named for her father, Louis, a mere dealer in antique tapestries, seemed insufficiently romantic to Louise Bourgeois, who was born on Christmas Day in 1911. She preferred the idea that her ...

Twenty-five thousand years ago, a boy and a dog walked into the Chauvet cave in what is now southwestern France. The boy carried a torch, and by this light he studied the horses drawn on the walls ...

Lost in the Supermarket - A Working Title I Want to Change by Saul Leslie ...

The small town of Weimar is overladen with historical associations. Goethe spent more than fifty years there as an employee and friend of Duke (later Grand Duke) Karl August. After the last grand duke ...

Raccoons divide opinion: some see them as bandit-masked evil geniuses, others as cute critters. They owe their success to ...

Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity. A ...