Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena ...

What have our universities become? What have they lost? Yes, they are reliable providers of professional training, as Western ...

Allegra Goodman’s novel follows a pampered 16th-century orphan tested by a number of catastrophes.

The earliest boat associated with the Humber was discovered during a local gasworks excavation on the east bank of the River ...

In Notes from Underground,” Frank asserts, the writing explodes and implodes and all the time the writer is trapped inside it, not only unable to get out, but unable to see what he has gotten himself ...

In a new book — London's Lost Pubs — Sam Cullen goes on a epic crawl of over 200 of the most interesting erstwhile boozers, ...

A man known as Italy's Robinson Crusoe who lived alone on an idyllic island for 32 years following a shipwreck has died. Mauro Morandi, who died on January 3 aged 85, lived as a hermit on the Isle ...

Elon Musk‘s latest comments on money make the same errors as we saw with Milton Friedman and the Monetarists. If Musk really ...