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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Imagine a man in late middle age, fastidiously dressed, his long face ‘creased and dry’, his ‘chameleon-like’ eyes watching behind round glasses. Picture him walking the streets of old Alexandria, ...

Before he succumbed to stomach cancer in January 2010, Yamaguchi met Charles Pellegrino and the Avatar director, James Cameron, who wanted to make a film of his experiences. Pellegrino’s new book, ...