The most consulted file in the National Archive is the Jack the Ripper dossier. So much work has been done in this field we might wonder if there is anything worthwhile left to say. However, the ...

Thursday 14 November was the last day in 2019 that women were paid to work. Translating the UK’s gender pay gap, which is now just over 13 per cent, into a proportion of the year gives us forty-seven ...

The Way You Tell Them is subtitled A Yarn for the Nineties, and there you have it: this is a futuristic novel (poet Alan Brownjohn’s first) about alternative comedy. It is nice to know that everybody ...

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A stiff-leaf capital is a distinctive English style of carving from the early 13th century, a decorative flourish of foliage to top off a column. But although it originated in a specific time and ...

The Stone Age inhabitants of the Franchthi Cave in the southern Argolid in Greece were not primitive. They hunted deer and grazed on pistachios, almonds, oats and lentils. From as early as 8500 BC, if ...

The ultimate purpose of what is now only the second least reputable literary prize going is to render itself redundant by discouraging poorly written, gratuitous or unnecessary passages of sexual ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Blake Gopnik’s life of Andy Warhol is less the chronicle of an advance towards death than a protracted postmortem. Gopnik begins halfway through, at what must have seemed to Warhol like the end. In ...

It is timely, in these days of Extinction Rebellion and anti-aviation protests, to examine the philosophy of travel. Why do we go, what do we get out of it, and is the very act of boarding a plane ...

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Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. A pleasure to write my first piece for @Lit_Review; thanks to @leorobsonwriter for asking me. I wish I’d ...