Twenty-six men were raised by Napoleon to the rank of marshal of France; only six fought with him at Waterloo. Jonathan Boff ...

The Portrait Miniature: A New History draws on the collection of around two thousand miniatures at the V&A to trace almost ...

For Western observers in particular, few Japanese institutions have proved so enduringly exotic: the tattoos, the severed ...

From Denying to Embracing the Inner Lives of Animals, de Waal, who died in 2024, describes the incident with Thai. Thai cared ...

In the first weeks of 1946, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock started work on a new project. The couple, in their mid-thirties, ...

Beast’s meditative introduction, ‘give or take a cryptic message in a lost locket, no concrete evidence of Hector Munro’s ...

It Takes a Village - Generation Maybe: Why We’re Having Fewer Children, and What It Means for Us All by Camilla Cavendish; ...

I began reading Jeff Jarvis’s Hot Type with some trepidation. The Linotype machine is not an obvious starting point for a ripping yarn. First used commercially in 1886, the Linotype – one of the great ...

Men: do not try too hard with your wardrobes. In the 1980s and 90s, John Berendt wrote a column on men’s clothing for Esquire magazine. He cautioned against the overt posturing involved in wearing ...

‘What are gardens for?’ asked Victorian cleric and rose-lover Samuel Reynolds Hole of various people, as Jonathan Bate reports in The Garden. The answers Hole recorded were delightfully British: ...

Jacqueline Rose’s second novel is an expansive, luminous, if sometimes unwieldy book. Two Women presents the fictionalised biography of two Jewish-born, Christian-convert philosophers: Edith Stein ...