In her Reith Lecture in 2017, Hilary Mantel reflected that the historical novelist “works away at the point where what is enacted meets what is dreamed, where politics meets psychology, where private ...
Over the past few years there has been a boom in scholarly studies of the Palace of Westminster, both as a historic building and in its present vulnerable ...
Leo Tolstoy hoped to finish Anna Karenina quickly. Within a year of beginning the novel in early 1873, he was already looking forward to its rapid publication in book form. The entire “carcass” of ...
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The British biologist J. B. S. Haldane once quipped that “there is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god”. The concept of “playing God” is a ...
From Pierre Bourdieu’s disenchanting Homo Academicus (1984) to the superb Cursed Questions (2020) by the late musicologist Richard Taruskin, scholarship ...
“To unlock the mysteries of the universe”, writes the journalist Stephen Kurczy in The Quiet Zone, his highly engaging, first full-length work of non-fiction, “we have to be quiet.” The radio ...
At the beginning of Moby-Dick, Ishmael imagines himself appearing on a bill, sandwiched between two great events. One is the “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States”; the ...
At the start of her second letter to Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) writes of an Italian master who once told her about an unpronounceable English word which absolutely expressed me ...
The Madness of Grief, Richard Coles’s memoir about the death of his civil partner, covers the period from Father David’s final hospital admission in ...
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