The best thing about the Soviet Union – arguably the only good thing – was the manner of its going. Though it lost its ...

In the summer of 1726, the writers Jonathan Swift and John Gay spent several weeks at the home of their friend Alexander Pope ...

The comic novelist Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for Less, a chronicle of the longings and humiliations ...

In 1949, the 18th Earl of Derby revived the tradition of the Derby Club dinner in London, three days before the race. His ...

For more than half a century, M. John Harrison has been writing about decay and dispossession in a style that is at once ...

For every smog-spitting chimney in Victorian London there was a woman tasked with keeping the hearth clean, both physically ...

Almost all owl species are adapted to see acutely at night and the largest are able to catch deer or pluck young eagles from ...

On a day in the early spring of 1998 I found myself sitting in a hotel room in Hollywood waiting to hear whether or not I ...

The life of Juan Carlos I, Spain’s 88-year-old former king, who reigned from 1975 until his abdication in 2014, ...

I’m Native American,’ said one half of the honeymooning couple from Plattsburgh, holding out a small gift as they ...

Kemi Badenoch today threw her weight behind Idris Elba’s call for casting directors to avoid a ‘woke’ choice for ...

The great and the good of the Conservative party turned out last night to mark the opening of the new building for Tory high ...