Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...

When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy opens with an absence – the sort of absence that might have proved fatal to a book written by a less determined author. In his preface, Charles Darwent lists his fruitless ...