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 ...

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

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

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

You might think me eccentric for feeding my cat the highest-quality pet food, made with free-run chicken and turkey, freshwater fish and cage-free eggs. But I should not be considered the weird one.

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

John Maynard Keynes observed in 1936 that ‘common sense’ in matters of political economy was often nothing more than a half-understood and mangled version of the academic orthodoxy of fifty or a ...

In June 1941 I happened to be in, of all places, Palestine, flying with the RAF against the Vichy French and the Nazis. Hitler happened to be in Germany and the gas-chambers were being built and the ...

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