Why is it, when Islamism has damaged the image of Islam so comprehensively, that the faith seems to retain a huge popularity?

James Rebanks, the Lake District shepherd turned bestselling author, made his name writing about the rhythms and realities of ...

England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

Ahead of next year’s centenary of The Great Gatsby, the inevitable revisiting of Fitzgerald gets under way. Two new ...

The whorehouse of thought” is how Claude Vignon, a journalist in Balzac’s Lost Illusions (1837–43), describes newspapers.

After an exchange with Brian Vickers relating to disputed questions of dramatic collaboration I had researched with Laurie ...

add up to. Some days I almost believe the ocean is real, that there really is all that fishing to be done. And some days the sun just hits the buildings all wrong. As usual the sky is a total mess and ...

Four times elected governor of New York state from 1958 to 1970, Nelson Rockefeller spent much of each term seeking the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, to which be belonged, but which ...

It is December 25, 1975. Maria Gabriela Llansol writes in her diary of meditation, chickens, her dog, of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Daybreak and the journal kept by the religious historian Mircea Eliade, ...