As the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence approaches, President Trump has spread anti-Americanism more widely than at any time since the Vietnam War. Fifty years ago, Sarah ...

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For many, what would come to be known as Christianity was still a Jewish sect operating within the confines of the established Law (ie the teachings of the Torah). Yet Christianity was cosmopolitan ...

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That episode is pivotal in Liaquat Ahamed’s panorama of the origins of an era of deflation, stagnation and unrest – the ‘first Great Depression’ – that afflicted much of the world for the rest of the ...

Ulrikka S Gernes’s debut novel, A Girl Left the Room, was published to huge acclaim in Denmark in 2024. It begins with a moth trapped in a train carriage. The protagonist, Tanja, captures it tenderly ...

As writers, we remove potential obstacles to our readers’ understanding with dots and dashes, lines and squiggles. Current English usage has around fourteen commonly used punctuation marks, depending ...

British public life is sustained by a series of comforting delusions – as became very clear to me during five years writing leaders for a national newspaper, trying to reconcile the stories the ...

Buffs of Catcher In The Rye will remember that novel's test of a good novel: if reading it makes you want to telephone the writer like a friend. Holden Caulfield, at large in the universe of the ...