Whether or not the story is true, an appeal to hasard seemed to resonate with those who lived through the dislocation of the post-revolutionary years. Demobilised soldiers and rural immigrants swelled ...

Mansfield refused to go along with the fashion for more generous grading, earning the nickname – in which he revelled – ...

The successful passage of the 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Act into law is a major milestone on the journey towards ...

Julian Barnes’s​ latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel ...

J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass ...

Britain’s nuclear subservience to the US dates from the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement ( MDA) between Washington and London: ...

Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling is a book about a city but it’s also a book about families and shows that ...

Mary Shelley signed off her introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein by bidding her ‘hideous progeny go forth and prosper’. In this episode of The Man Behind the Curtain, Tom McCarthy and ...

In Nayatt School, Spalding Gray played a ‘pedantic schoolteacher’ and the psychiatrist from The Cocktail ...

Maritime trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks: the Suez Canal, for example, or the Malacca Strait ...