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

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

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

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy opens with an absence – the sort of absence that might have proved fatal to a book written by a less determined author. In his preface, Charles Darwent lists his fruitless ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

Incredible but far from unusual is the story of Hercules’s maternal grandfather. Taken captive defending Kyiv from the ...

Book Reviews by subject: Vladimir Nabokov & Literary life & Literature and Literary Criticism May 2017 Issue Mark Dunbar Stings Like a Butterfly The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End ...