Cut from the Same Canvas - Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell ...

It was thus easy to assume that Benson was a conventional pillar of the establishment. A son of Edward White Benson, first headmaster of Wellington College and archbishop of Canterbury, he taught at ...

There was a time when commodity histories were everywhere. They tended to focus on consumption and trade over very long distances. Ulbe Bosma’s The World of Sugar is much more than this sort of book.

Reading art history can be like watching paint dry: X studied under the distinguished Professor Y at the Académie de ZZZ. Scandal can pique the reader’s interest – the numberless offspring, the ...

Close by the desk on which I write, I have some pieces of Tibet, a collection of ordinary stones picked up at various places thirty years ago on my one and only visit there. They are each wrapped in ...

His title is shrewdly chosen. ‘Genius’ is the word we humans use to assert our mental superiority. Nature’s genius is its ...

Lost Boys is, then, perfectly timed. It takes us on a journey through the manosphere and its population of pick-up artists ...

To the Postbox - The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf by Stephen Barkway & Stuart N Clarke (edd) ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Quentin Skinner’s remarkable new study surveys ‘the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times’. The book’s extraordinary scope is matched by a bold thesis, which is ethical and ...

Since the deplorably premature death of W G Sebald in a road accident in 2001, Jo Catling, a former colleague of his at the University of East Anglia, has been among the most dedicated keepers of his ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...