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

The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson ...

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

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

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 ...

Romantic fiction has deep roots. In a description of King Arthur’s court written around 1155, the poet Wace presented his ...

The European was the Marquis de Morès – explorer, adventurer and far-right demagogue – who aimed to forestall British ...

Passage to a Better World - The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin by Dan Edelstein; Revolutions: A New History by Donald Sassoon ...

The old Left–Right divide still exists in France, of course, but its former significance has greatly declined. The parties that embody this ideological opposition are now in crisis or moribund.

In Harold Bloom’s native United States, his latest tome has proved something of a publishing phenomenon. When I visited New York last autumn, this academic panorama of Shakespeare was enjoying a ...

There are plenty of Vietnam memoirs and films but surprisingly few novels about the war, and none of them could be called exceptional or definitive. In his first full-length novel for nine years, ...