Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ...

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

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 ...

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

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

J.H. Prynne was not a name to conjure with when I was a first-year English student at Cambridge in 1966. As far as I knew, he was just another lecturer whose lectures I didn’t go to. By 1968, though, ...

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 ...

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

Lucky Peer!’ Both a state-of-the-nation novel and an extended Bildungsroman, Pontoppidan’s narrative follows the vicissitudes ...

Figuring out which proxies are generally dependable and under which circumstances is a complex business, and this is ...

The notion of the Great Composer – the individual genius, whose inimitable music is an expression of a singular ...