In the late ninth century, an anonymous scribe in Aquitaine compiled a collection of thirty-one Latin poems. Among them is a ...

Frances Tanzer’s innovative and insightful approach to the postwar cultural reinvention of Vienna focuses on artists, ...

Nicola Shulman salutes the memoirs of an old-school editor and socialite; Rebecca Fraser discusses an unexpectedly peaceful transition of power in seventeenth-century America Toby Lichtig travels to ...

In an essay of 1946, George Orwell reminded readers that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle”. In their complementary new books on the shadow global economy, the ...

Most of us would rather not think about death – our own or that of others. It is one of the most invisible, suppressed, negated and denied facts of life. Yet it will eventually and inevitably catch up ...

What a peculiar book this is. Peter York, best known for his cod-anthropological examin­ation of British society’s various snobby tribes, The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982), has turned his ...

Do we really need another account of how capitalism and gender stereotypes operate together to create and maintain inequality between men and women? Feminist economists have made this case since the ...

Does it matter who wrote the books we love? I was recently asked to talk about Elsa Morante (1912–85) at the Italian Cultural Institute in London. The idea was to present her fiction in a celebration ...