The artist Chaim Soutine was obsessed with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. After managing at the age of ...

The prosperity of Asante, in present-day Ghana, was built in part on abundant deposits of precious metal. The British colony ...

The wider circumpolar region is rich in oil, gas, metals and minerals, while thawing ice has increased the navigability of ...

Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot with Judith Perrignon (Translated from French by Natasha Lehrer & Ruth Diver) ...

A History of Illustration by D B Dowd ...

Baby-making has become ‘a capitalist’s wet dream’, writes journalist Alev Scott in Cash Cow. Although the subject has been much explored by scholars, Scott comes at it a little differently – initially ...

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One of the great moments, among many, in Paul Fischer’s new book, The Last Kings of Hollywood, occurs in the twelfth chapter, when Fischer describes a party that took place at Francis Ford Coppola’s ...

In this third volume of his Gotham trilogy, Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945, Mike Wallace examines not only how the city weathered the war against the Axis powers but how ...

In a letter to his close friend Mary Painter in 1957, James Baldwin recounts how an extended trip to Corsica enabled him ‘to get his private and public lives in something resembling alignment. For ...

A political scientist working at Birkbeck College, London, Eric Kaufmann is ‘a quarter Latino and a quarter Chinese’. He was raised in Canada but his father’s family was of Czech-Jewish background.

Michael Frayn has solved a problem for me. I am often asked to recommend a book that will get interested parties well into philosophy, and find myself at a stand because text-book introductions are ...