In his rollicking memoir A Pound of Paper (2002), the Australian writer John Baxter recalls being in a bookshop in Sydney one ...

Rebecca L. Davis’s magisterial new book, Fierce Desires: A new history of sex and sexuality in America, concludes with a 2023 decision by a federal judge in Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk, to outlaw the ...

Food history is something of a teenage discipline: old enough to be given a seat at the grown ups’ table and for its views to be politely heard, but not yet taken entirely seriously by everyone. It ...

In 1898, Asher Wertheimer, a leading London art dealer, marked his silver wedding anniversary by commissioning John Singer Sargent to paint two portraits, one of himself and one of his wife. Sargent ...

“To be Carmanised”, said one of the courtroom victims of George Carman QC, “was a dire experience.” Carman (1929–2001) was the most famous barrister of the late twentieth century – the man who got ...

Sir Peter Russell (1913–2006) was King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1981. He was also Director of Portuguese Studies, and the author of a ...

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Early in Josephine Tey’s classic mystery The Daughter of Time (1951), Inspector Grant, laid up with a broken leg and vainly seeking distraction with a heap of the latest bestsellers, remarks ...

Diana Berruezo-Sánchez “once told a professor about an idea: I wanted to conduct research on the oral poetry of freed and enslaved black Africans in early modern Spain. He said I was unlikely to find ...

This smartly presented story, the first in a dual language series that will feature international authors writing on aspects ...

Stepping out of his apartment block in Paris’s chic sixteenth arrondissement, the filmmaker Robert Bristol narrowly avoids ...

Standing in the full / glare of the war, I’m a surface / reflecting its awesome light”, Oksana Maksymchuk declares in Still City, her debut ...