In Those Who Are About to Die, Harry Sidebottom recounts a story told by St Augustine of a pupil who detested the games but ...

Carthage must be destroyed’ – the most famous thing ever said about Rome’s ancient rival. The words were uttered by the Roman ...

Few, I suspect, will instantly recall that 2025 marks four hundred years since the death of James VI and I. He had the ...

About Time - Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein by Diana Kormos Buchwald & Michael D Gordin ...

Off the Rails is not the definitive history of HS2, but Gimson has clearly set out the sequence of decisions that have ...

I shall not insist here upon Mark Twain as a moralist,’ Howells wrote, ‘though I warn the reader that if he leaves out of the ...

The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first ...

New Tariff in Town - The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World by Philip Coggan ...

No doubt I will not be the last to remark that this is the most fascinating book Patrick McGrath did not write. It has all the ingredients of one of McGrath’s icily stylish novels: madness, violence, ...

Kit de Waal’s second novel, The Trick to Time, begins with Mona, a sixty-year-old Irish immigrant, standing by her window in the middle of the night. She notices a man in the building across from her ...

Nadine Gordimer is one of the great figures of our time. A political activist and excoriating critic in apartheid-era South Africa, she has more recently campaigned for social justice and AIDS ...

Get ready to start hearing a lot about Martin Luther. On 31 October 2017 it will be five hundred years since Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, ...