A revolutionary who critiqued Marx; a Christian who refused baptism; a Jew who held Jewishness in contempt: Simone Weil was a ...

I first went to look at medieval manuscripts in Longleat House in the early 1970s. In those days readers were placed in an ...

London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those ...

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“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind”, W. B. Yeats wrote in 1927; “sex and the dead.” ...

The French economist Thomas Piketty is best-known for Le Capital au XXIe siècle (2013; Capital in the Twenty-First Century, 2014) – a study intimidating in length (704 pages, with an audio version ...

Chawton House, with its extensive gardens and parkland, once belonged to Jane Austen’s brother Edward Knight. He arranged for his sisters and mother to live in a villa nearby (now the Jane Austen’s ...

At first glance the subjects of Elisa Gabbert’s third essay collection, Any Person Is the Only Self, might elicit an eye roll. Another essay about Frankenstein? Gabbert’s sixteen pieces, many ...

Forty-one-year-old Police Constable Trevor Lock was at his usual post, guarding the Iranian embassy in London, on the morning of April 30, 1980. At 11.36 he noticed a young man whom he took to be ...

For a century now, in pursuit of a more convincing representation of the swirling rhythms of the mind, authors have been tempted to do away with one of the building blocks of fictional convention – ...