It is 1964, somewhere near Birbeck College. A thirty-three-year-old Roger Penrose and the famously effusive mathematical ...

Huawei – one of the world’s largest and most powerful technology firms – is rarely out of the media spotlight. Yet we know ...

Unlike almost any other conflict, the First World War has never loosened its grip on the scholarly or public imagination.

Guess who’s back? “He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the ...

Money to Burn (Penge på lommen, 2020) is the first in a projected seven-novel series by the Danish poet and novelist Asta ...

Recently republished by Virago, with an illuminating foreword by Camilla Grudova, Caroline Blackwood’s The Fate of Mary Rose ...

The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things is a fever dream of a book, gripping and trippy. Suzanne Joinson, a bestselling ...

According to many scholars in a variety of social sciences and economic disciplines, the world has, over the past two decades ...

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...

On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel ...

Black Gold The forms employed by tradesmen tailor’s dummy, knife grinder’s stone, cobbler’s iron foot have their place by the bed of love the bed of death meanwhile stars tumble down meanwhile we stir ...