Drudge Culture - Small Holdings by Nicola Barker ...

In an essay entitled ‘American Literature and Language’ (1953), T S Eliot wrote that, in Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain ‘reveals himself to be one of those writers, of whom there are not a great many in ...

Edward Vallance: No Justice, No Peace - The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English Revolution by John Rees ...

‘The moon wanes and waxes, it is never steadfast’, wrote the author of Ancrene Wisse, a 13th-century guide for English anchoresses, ‘and signifies therefore worldly things that are as the moon ever ...

‘Carthage must be destroyed’ – the most famous thing ever said about Rome’s ancient rival. The words were uttered by the Roman historian and statesman Cato as he dumped a pile of juicy Carthaginian ...

The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first poetry reading in November 1988, at the advanced age of sixty-five. The queue ...

In economic terms, 2025 has been an exciting ride. The equity and foreign exchange markets have been all over the place, with investors reacting to a blizzard of announcements from the White House and ...

People keep vanishing in C D Rose’s latest novel, We Live Here Now. The much-vaunted British artist Sigismunda Conrad falls out of art-world favour and is more or less forgotten. Her fixer, an Italian ...

Lukas Dorn, the central character of Hugo Hamilton’s new novel, talks to the sea and the sea talks back to him. Recently separated from his wife, Katia, who has remained in Berlin, he has returned to ...

Between 1781 and 1801, Maria Cosway exhibited forty-two paintings at the Royal Academy. Some of her images circulated as prints, engraved by distinguished printmakers like Francesco Bartolozzi, but ...

Publishing used to be a dirty business. I’m talking not only about the ink-stained fingers of disreputable writers, but also about the filthy hands of those who actually put the words on the page: the ...

Khaled Hosseini’s third novel is an exquisitely rendered study of familial bonds. Opening with the fierce sibling loyalty between Abdullah and his sister, Pari, which acts as the linchpin for a ...