The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe by Stephen Greenblatt ...

The Fight for the Future of the Arctic by Mia Bennett & Klaus Dodds ...

When, in a classic scene in probably the smartest cartoon series in history, the notoriously idiotic Homer Simpson says, ‘everyone is stupid except me’, the joke is as much on us as it is on him. At ...

Aneurin Bevan once jibed that the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell was a ‘desiccated calculating machine’. If the observation hinted at a dryness of personality allied to a bent for ruthlessness, then the ...

Sebastian Faulks tells us in the introduction to Fires Which Burned Brightly that he was reluctant to write a memoir in the conventional sense but hopes that this varied selection of stories, ...

The question matters greatly when assessing Tom McTague’s Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution, ...

In 1962, Martin Heidegger went on a cruise to the Aegean. Going to Greece had not been an easy decision. Seven years earlier he had got so far as to buy train and boat tickets; when the enormity of ...

‘Mindfulness’ is due a backlash, surely. And it starts here. Sort of. The authors, both psychologists, and one an experienced meditator with a lifelong interest in spiritual matters, originally set ...

It is almost half a century since the last full-length English-language biography of Jean Cocteau was published, and it has taken thirteen years for Claude Arnaud’s work finally to be translated from ...

LAST YEAR THE American historian Arthur Herman published a book on the Scottish Enlightenment with the subtitle 'The Scots' Invention of the Modern World'. James Buchan's subtitle is 'How Eknburgh ...

In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes published an essay titled ‘Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren’, in which he anticipated how we would spend our time a hundred years ahead. Keynes ...

If Helen’s was the face that launched a thousand ships, Arthur’s is the name that has spawned a thousand theories. Scarcely a year passes without someone locating the ‘real’ site of Camelot or the ...