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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

Anthony O’Hear is one of several recent philosophers who have turned their backs on the idea that their subject is a purely academic discipline, to embrace the old but still attractive principle that ...

Oksana Zabuzhko built her reputation as one of Ukraine’s leading intellectuals on searing analysis of her country’s postcolonial condition and her talent ...

Ever since 1940, the mere silhouette of an elliptical winged Supermarine Spitfire has been enough to summon up potent symbolism of Britain standing alone. In the deep night of a very different battle, ...