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

Where Rituals Come Home to Roost - The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism is Shaping Modern Asia by Sonia Faleiro ...

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

The old Left–Right divide still exists in France, of course, but its former significance has greatly declined. The parties ...

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

The Kremlin’s Long Reach - The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland ...

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

The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson ...

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 ...

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) gets top billing in the subtitle of Hard Streets but he’s not the star of the show. The book begins with and is built around an earlier rags-to-riches tale and its wider ...

It is hard to understand why the reign of Henry VII has for so long had the reputation of being one of the most boring periods of English history. Perhaps it is because successive generations of ...

There is something magnificent about the ambition of Iain McGilchrist’s book. It offers nothing less than an account of human nature and Western civilisation as outcomes of the competition between the ...