The depiction of ordinary places, and of the changing seasons and skies which shadow or illuminate them, is at the core of ...

As Wotton saw it, England had to offer its support. Already, Venice’s struggle was threatening to become a European conflict.

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The Kremlin’s Long Reach - The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland ...

Primo Levi (1919–87), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75), Italo Calvino (1923–85) – and Leonardo Sciascia (1921–89), the subject ...

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) gets top billing in the subtitle of Hard Streets but he’s not the star of the show. The book ...

The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson ...

This is a book that Alfred Hitchcock probably would not like. No matter how much fame, fortune and celebrity the director enjoyed, he guarded his critical reputation carefully, and he was reluctant to ...

The Cambridge Footlights, the university’s comedy club, has not greatly altered its modus operandi since its first production in 1883. During termtime, the club puts on sketch shows and a pantomime, ...

Romantic fiction has deep roots. In a description of King Arthur’s court written around 1155, the poet Wace presented his ...

In January 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took the Syrian town of Raqqa. Within a week, the Salafi-jihadist group banned smoking, ordered that photographs be removed from shop windows and ...

Bodelsen, who died in 2021, is better known for Think of a Number (1968), a thriller whose Rubik’s Cube complexity elevated a genre staple, the bank heist gone awry, into a nuanced drama with moral as ...