This is partly because Chabal – a historian of France and the son of a Moroccan-born historian of the Lusophone world – is ...

Every now and then, a serious scholar wins the lottery. An academic journal publishes their research and the article crosses ...

Waiting for Permission - Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965–66 by David Kynaston ...

Montefiore refuses to treat the Middle East as an exclusively Arab or Muslim arena. Turks, Persians, Jews, Kurds, Armenians, ...

Prime Minister Burnham’s brush with investors in gilts was short and sour. He argued that Britain needed to stop being ‘in hock to the bond markets’. The gilt market duly responded and yields began to ...

Most people will come to this biography with bemusement. They might wonder why the preposterously pink Barbara Cartland, purveyor of pulp paperback romances, is worthy of anyone’s attention, let alone ...

Cicero's life was bookended by two momentous events: the fall of Roman Republic and the rise of the future Augustus. Llewelyn Morgan asks what his letters reveal about this turning point in history.

Debussy once asked Mallarme if he could set one of his poems to music. But, replied Mallarme, have I not already set it to music? Hilary Mantel has decided to treat the French Revolution as a novel.

Martin Amis’s new novel is clearly the result of the same forces which he says prompted him to write Einstein’s Monsters: Parenthood and a belated reading of Jonathon Schell’s Fate of the Earth. In ...

AT ONE OF the earliest points of our recorded history, the remarkable culture of Mesopotamia flourished, and one of its many versatile and precocious achievements was Gilgamesh, our first recognisable ...

Kazuo Ishiguro has been widely praised for his ‘Japanese’ virtues as a writer: delicacy, subtlety, quiet irony, watercolour tones, etc. The fact that he was born in Japan and set his first two novels ...

The paradox at the centre of High Fidelity is that while pop songs almost always involve love, passion and raw feeling, the kind of men who are most intensely addicted to pop music tend to be a bunch ...