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

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

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

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

This collection of stories forms a Gulag memoir to rival Solzhenitsyn’s, as Solzhenitsyn himself acknowledged. Between 1954 and 1973, after fifteen years spent mainly in the camps of the Kolyma region ...

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

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

One of the most important facts about Michel Houellebecq – usually overlooked in favour of his nihilism, alleged racism and other attention-seeking provocations – is that he is a first-rate prose ...

The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson ...

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, ...

In January 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took the Syrian town of Raqqa. Within a week, the Salafi-jihadist group banned smoking, ordered that photographs be removed from shop windows and ...

In the summer of 1897, two aspiring Greek poets, who were also brothers, ended their brief tour of Europe by spending three days in Paris. For the younger brother, Constantine Cavafy, those three days ...