When Pietro Russell, the anti-hero of A Fool’s Alphabet, thinks of an afterlife, he imagines ‘a hell that is entirely composed of hotel bathrooms’. There will be the bars of soap, too tightly packed ...

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 Regency-style dealerships have been replaced by white-box-style galleries.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.

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 Regency-style dealerships have been replaced by white-box-style galleries.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.

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

In 1962, Martin Heidegger went on a cruise to the Aegean. Going to Greece had not been an easy decision. Seven years earlier he had got so far as to buy train and boat tickets; when the enormity of ...

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 ...

In late 2022, at the G20 summit held at a balmy resort in Bali, Indonesia, the prime minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, ...

The Virago Book of Friendship is an anthology of writings centred on friendships between women. The lack of gender ...

The Empusium, the new novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, is subtitled ‘A Health Resort Horror Story’ and is described in the publicity material as revisiting the terrain of ...