A man wearing a dark rollneck sweater and a long coat stands in front of a two-tone door, his brow furrowed and his beard ...

The results of the Oscar Wilde Society’s Wilde Wit competition are in. This much we gather from the new issue of Intentions, ...

Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize ...

There is a Victorian heft about Charles Taylor as a thinker – not just because his books are on a monumental scale that reminds you of someone like T. H. Green or Bernard Bosanquet, but also because, ...

A generation ago, Laurence Rees’s pathbreaking television series The Nazis: A warning from history changed public perceptions of the Nazi dictatorship. The image of an efficient political monolith in ...

Thad was trained by his father to do things the right way, with pride and precision: fixing the roof; chopping logs; skinning a bear. Even when he is doing the wrong thing – say, going against his ...

In Tash Aw’s new novel, the Lim family – Jack, Sui Ching and their children, Jay, Yin and Lina – head to south Malaysia for the holidays rather than to Jack’s family home in the country’s north, even ...

Given the scale of Jonathan Meades’s third novel, Empty Wigs, and bearing in mind its author’s striking and sui generis body of work on buildings, it seems natural to survey the book’s architecture.

The travellers in this collection of essays are mostly British (Polish count Michał Jan Borch is the one exception) and their travels confined to Europe, apart from those of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ...

A couple of years ago I attended a workshop in Fulda, a city right in the middle of Germany. To medievalists, it is best known as the resting place of St Boniface, the English missionary and ...

Where do writers get their ideas from? In the case of David Cornwell, the writer also known as John le Carré, the answer might be Enemy Combatant: The terrifying true story of a Briton in Guantánamo ...