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 ...

Sir John Lubbock was an exemplary Edwardian Liberal. Growing up under the influence of Charles Darwin, who lived in the same village as him, he had a scientific mind. A truly good man and a ...

Boris Pasternak put his signature on every page he wrote. His lyric poems, letters, memoirs brim with personal feeling. Even Dr Zhivago is as much autobiography as epic. By contrast his son Evgeny, ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...

Does the monumental life of WH Auden justify yet another book? @FionaRSampson considers the latest effort. Fiona Sampson - Tell Me the Truth About Love Fiona Sampson: Tell Me the Truth About Love - ...

The London art market has changed drastically in the last few decades. Regency-style dealerships have been replaced by white-box-style galleries. Only contemporary pieces turn a profit.

In the last four years, two Conservative prime ministers have stood on the threshold of 10 Downing Street and set out a ‘one-nation’ vision for Britain. The first was Theresa May, who, in July 2016, ...

In his 1913 story ‘Kleist in Thun’, the Swiss writer Robert Walser depicts Heinrich von Kleist (1777–1811) living and writing alone in a villa in the Bernese Oberland. ‘Weeks pass,’ Walser writes, ...

Describing his reaction to the testing of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945, Robert Oppenheimer recalled: We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried.

When Pietro Russell, the anti-hero of A Fool’s Alphabet, thinks of an afterlife, he imagines ‘a hell that is entirely composed of hotel bathrooms’. There will be the bars of soap, too tightly packed ...

The London art market has changed drastically in the last few decades. Regency-style dealerships have been replaced by white-box-style galleries. Only contemporary pieces turn a profit.

The London art market has changed drastically in the last few decades. Regency-style dealerships have been replaced by white-box-style galleries. Only contemporary pieces turn a profit.