On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

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Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs. Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged ...

Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs. Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged ...

Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs. Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged ...

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 ...

Every now and again one reads a book about peril and survival and thinks, ‘I couldn’t have survived that.’ Such is the story of Justice Amin, a seventeen-year-old Ghanaian who set out overland in 2005 ...

Once 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 ...

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It isn’t too much of a spoiler, I hope, to say that Robert Harris’s enjoyable new book has a twist not at the end, but at the beginning: it starts out looking like a historical novel and, a chapter or ...

We are saddened to hear of the death of Edmund White. We've lifted the paywall on Richard Davenport-Hines's 2014 review of White's Paris memoir. Richard Davenport-Hines - Scenes from a Literary Life ...