One day Frederic Prokosch wrote a novel. He was 27 years old, living with his parents in New Haven, Connecticut, and ...

If you long for that far-off time when novels were prepared to be hilariously funny, vulgar, caustic, wildly politically ...

That’s really meta,’ said my husband, attempting to imitate a stoned hippie at a festival, but only achieving his ...

I didn’t think so, but Helen Bain’s debut novel The Daffodil Days proved me wrong. I did not expect to be absorbed, on the first page, by a woman cleaning a house (Court Green in Devon), the home ...

There was a Teutonic version of the ‘stiff-upper-lip’ Blitz spirit. But one big difference between our experience and the Germans’ was obvious. Berliners had two enemies: Allied armour and their own ...

Overnight on Wednesday, around 100 Basij soldiers were killed across Tehran by dozens to hundreds of suicide drones in ...

How tiring it is for me without you. My soul is calm and I can rest only when you, my teacher, are seated next to me and I kiss your hands and lay my head on your blessed shoulders. Oh, how easy ...

Donald Trump has been astonishingly successful dealing with tyrants, obstreperous foreign leaders, business rivals and political opponents. Perhaps his most difficult challenge will be in dealing with ...

To paraphrase Charlie Munger: ‘show us the oversized government program and we will show you the scams and the ...

Inflation is not an abstract statistic. It is the weekly grocery bill that keeps creeping higher. It is rent and mortgage repayments swallowing a greater share of household income. It is electricity, ...

The firestorm surrounding Senator Pauline Hanson’s comments regarding ‘good Muslims’ continues to swirl, fuelled by the ...

But for all the threats and intimidation, Iran’s cruel leaders have failed. Islam tried and failed to erase the Persian language, culture and history during the First Islamic Occupation fourteen ...