Towards the end of this brief, eclectic book, James C. Scott quotes disapprovingly the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky’s ...

Huawei – one of the world’s largest and most powerful technology firms – is rarely out of the media spotlight. Yet we know ...

Money to Burn (Penge på lommen, 2020) is the first in a projected seven-novel series by the Danish poet and novelist Asta ...

Guess who’s back? “He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the ...

The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things is a fever dream of a book, gripping and trippy. Suzanne Joinson, a bestselling ...

According to many scholars in a variety of social sciences and economic disciplines, the world has, over the past two decades ...

Recently republished by Virago, with an illuminating foreword by Camilla Grudova, Caroline Blackwood’s The Fate of Mary Rose ...

It is 1964, somewhere near Birbeck College. A thirty-three-year-old Roger Penrose and the famously effusive mathematical ...

Unlike almost any other conflict, the First World War has never loosened its grip on the scholarly or public imagination.

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...

It's not only on the President of the USA that questions have landed about the accuracy of his public statements (whether ...