Sir John Lubbock was an exemplary Edwardian Liberal. Growing up under the influence of Charles Darwin, who lived in the same village as him, he had a scientific mind. A truly good man and a ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...

In the last four years, two Conservative prime ministers have stood on the threshold of 10 Downing Street and set out a ‘one-nation’ vision for Britain. The first was Theresa May, who, in July 2016, ...

The London art market has changed drastically in the last few decades. Regency-style dealerships have been replaced by white-box-style galleries. Only contemporary pieces turn a profit.

In his 1913 story ‘Kleist in Thun’, the Swiss writer Robert Walser depicts Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) living and writing alone in a villa in the Bernese Oberland. ‘Weeks pass,’ Walser writes, ...

Describing his reaction to the testing of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945, Robert Oppenheimer recalled: We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried.

Ring Down the Curtain - The Critic by Anand Tucker (dir) ...

Children’s literature is a Snarky beast: hunt for it and you’ll find a Boojum. Texts written for adults, like J R R Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, snuck into children’s hands; editions of J K ...

The eighteenth book in Patrick O’Brian’s great naval series more than maintains the standards he has set himself. There is no falling-off, no self-indulgence. That is all O’Brian fans need to know; ...

We learn about Lovelock’s efforts to find life on Mars, his invention of the electron capture detector (ECD), which revealed ...

Yours Shamelessly - Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes (Translated from French by Frank Wynne) ...

Medieval documents – both books and individual documents, such as charters – survive in remarkable quantities. Neil Ker’s Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, which gives details about holdings ...