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 ...

When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and ...

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 ...

Tech watchers tell us that the earliest adopter of any innovation is invariably the porn industry. But the steadicam auteurs and their upholstered stars have failed to get much purchase on emojis.

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 ...

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

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy opens with an absence – the sort of absence that might have proved fatal to a book written by a less determined author. In his preface, Charles Darwent lists his fruitless ...