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Following a chance conversation with a stranger in a London television studio in 2023, Radden Keefe picks up the unsolved ...

What Country, Friends, Is This? - If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation by Daniel Hahn ...

Some while back, the literary biography industry slowed as it began to run out of subjects to write about. It found a new ...

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The Western Isles are often shrunk from the scale afforded the mainland of Britain so as to fit onto a page of an atlas. Love of Country should serve to restore spaciousness, air and attention to this ...

If the Bloomsberries lived in squares and loved in triangles, the Olivier sisters lived in tents and loved in Venn diagrams. Take Noel Olivier, the youngest of the four and the star of Sarah Watling’s ...

Do you know what happened in Lyon in AD 177? Or in Milan in 1300? Or in Baroda in 1825? You probably don’t, but you shouldn’t worry: few do. Whatever happened, it was, by ordinary standards, something ...

Film directors usually make the least promising subjects for biography. They tend to stay behind the camera and get on with making films, emerging only to make the odd promotional statement. Only ...