At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

My boss at the bookshop has said he would sell AI novels if there were clear demand and clear labelling. We ...

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Pablo Scheffer joins Tom to explore the transition from Roman to British to Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss why none of the changes that took place was ...

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner, 509 pp., £30, September, 978 1 3985 6690 3 The Collected Essays of Ralph ...

Earlier at her party Simon Shaw had seemed a little excited when I met up with him. Was that sexual interest? – but what did ...

Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...

John Clare’s tombstone in Helpston declares that ‘A poet is born not made,’ echoing sentiments expressed during his lifetime. In 1822 the Eclectic Review noted that ‘such a poet as John Clare, ...

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

Roughly two-thirds of the YCBA ’s current holdings once belonged to Mellon himself, with the remainder comprising items purchased by the museum or bequeathed to it. What began as a personal project ...

The title, Switzy, is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold. Emma ...

He also directed the homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to make a list of ‘confirmed’ citizens eligible to vote ...