A divorcee in her sixties named Rose travels to Almería to see a specialist, who may or may not be a quack, about a mystery ailment that may or may not be imagined. She is accompanied by her daughter, ...

A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

John Maynard Keynes observed in 1936 that ‘common sense’ in matters of political economy was often nothing more than a half-understood and mangled version of the academic orthodoxy of fifty or a ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand advertisements and other undesirables fall foul of something called the Unicode ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

All children love dragons. Why this is so is the subject of much discussion. Perhaps it’s because they really are an incarnation of a Jungian archetype, an innate part of our humanity. Or maybe it’s ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

Johnsey Cunliffe is a young Tipperary man with a disability that has rendered him somewhat lumbering and, in everyone’s estimation (including his own), simple. Despite this, the third-person narrative ...

Book Reviews by subject: 18th Century & Magic & Witchcraft April 2020 Issue Dmitri Levitin The Mage of Reason The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment By Michael Hunter ...