Sheila Armstrong’s strange and beautiful novel has 12 chapters, each named for a month of the year – though not always the ...

The Fifth Crusade, which was fought between 1217 and 1221, marked a new direction for the crusading movement of ...

In the summer of 1970, a group of West German radical activists flew from Berlin to the Middle East.

Henry Power’s engaging and witty book describes how and why Homer has been received and transmuted over the centuries: how ...

The foundations of all British situation comedy were laid by Charles Dickens. If you were to remove that tiresome ...

Do novelists need credentials? Once, almost a century ago, the vogue for hard-boiled fiction meant that in the masculine ...

Nearly ten years ago, the author, critic and classical Indian musician Amit Chaudhuri took up a visiting fellowship in ...

There are novelists who seem to spend their entire careers either apologising for being themselves or trying to become ...

If there’s any justice, that’s exactly what the British authorities should do now: revoke the visas of any players holding ...

There comes a point when individual incidents cease to look like isolated lapses and begin to suggest something more ...

Few in France will have been as devastated by their team’s defeat in last night’s World Cup semi-final as Emmanuel Macron.

This could possibly take the form of a new Proportional Property Tax such as that proposed by the ground Fairer Share, which ...