Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, the wild man covered in hair, is seduced away from his innocent fellowship with a herd of deer and taken to live in the city. ‘You are beautiful, Enkidu,’ the temple ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. We are saddened to hear of the death of Edmund White. We've lifted the paywall on Richard Davenport-Hines's ...