Michael Arditti’s impressive and immersive family saga begins in Salonica (now Thessaloniki) in 1911 and follows the fortunes of ...

The war with Iran is exposing a vulnerability at the heart of the global gas market: the extraordinary concentration of liquefied natural gas supply in the Persian Gulf. Qatar alone accounts for ...

It’s not more than a parlour game, perhaps, to speculate about history’s most crucial inventions. One invention often makes ...

While the Labor government insists there is no link between its spending and rising inflation, economists disagree.

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 ...

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 ...

Rarely has such a short title worked harder than Howl, which Howard Jacobson takes from Allen Ginsberg’s incantatory 1955 ...

It is no disadvantage at all for Matt Canavan being in the Senate, as The Australian claims. Except for determining who governs, the House is presently an irrelevant, ignored, and boring rubber stamp.

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

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 ...

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