Few people can have had more fun than Peter Lennon, working for an English newspaper in Paris. Lennon arrived in Paris from Dublin in approximately 1960, aged about twenty, and stayed for roughly ten ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale. Arthur ...

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Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted ...

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 ...

Book Reviews by subject: Music & 19th Century & Classical Music September 2021 Issue Rupert Christiansen Sounds of Sehnsucht The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder ...

O nce upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale. Arthur ...

Book Reviews by subject: Russia & the Soviet Union & Marcel Proust September 2019 Issue Adrian Nathan West Freedom Regained Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine ...

‘My whole life has been a search for the miraculous,’ Bruce Chatwin says. Each of these essays, fragments and sketches written between 1972 and the author’s recent death are way-stations in the search ...

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