The most reticent and troubled member of the so-called New York School of Poets, James Schuyler (1923–91) gave his first ...

In Those Who Are About to Die, Harry Sidebottom recounts a story told by St Augustine of a pupil who detested the games but ...

Few, I suspect, will instantly recall that 2025 marks four hundred years since the death of James VI and I. He had the ...

About Time - Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein by Diana Kormos Buchwald & Michael D Gordin ...

Off the Rails is not the definitive history of HS2, but Gimson has clearly set out the sequence of decisions that have ...

New Tariff in Town - The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World by Philip Coggan ...

Benjamin Wood’s new novel opens in Longferry, a town on the northwest coast, with an unforgettable image of a young working man, Thomas Flett, plying a well-nigh obsolete trade – that of ‘seascraping’ ...

Grayson Perry once made a pot titled ‘Football Stands for Everything I Hate’. David Goldblatt might say the same thing. While Perry included the words ‘hair gel’ and ‘pub bores’ on his elegant ceramic ...

The Israeli writer Etgar Keret’s seventh short-story collection, Autocorrect, presents a world of Zoom calls, dating apps, selfie sticks, AI chatbots and reality shows, while also touching on the ...

It’s twenty years since James Shapiro published 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, which fused literary criticism with political and social history in bravura fashion. Shapiro vigorously ...

Carthage must be destroyed’ – the most famous thing ever said about Rome’s ancient rival. The words were uttered by the Roman ...