With The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman might be said to have invented a completely new genre: true-crime literary criticism, which is not to be confused with truly criminal literary criticism, which, of ...

Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize. In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.

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It’s said that Oxford was spared destruction on the scale of Coventry because Adolf Hitler wanted the place as his capital after he conquered England. Ashley Jackson’s engrossing new book describes ...

One of my journalism professors, a gruff newspaper editor named Klaus Pohle, once posed a question about mass media that is both critical and unresolvable: where does the public interest end and the ...

Donald Trump himself and Trump-friendly elements of the US media have long promoted the legend that before turning to politics he was one of America’s greatest entrepreneurs, with a Midas touch in New ...

As E H Carr famously noted, ‘studying the historian’ is key to understanding how history is written. This is especially true when it comes to the debate over the origins of the First World War, a ...

Does anything ever truly happen in the Messiah? This extraordinarily popular tripartite choral work, first performed in Dublin in 1742, consists almost entirely of saying rather than of doing.

For decades Lucy Ash has produced intrepid, pioneering radio broadcasts and essays. She has spent half her life in dangerous places, in particular Russia’s power centres and its most remote regions.

Marie Antoinette as few had seen her before. Perched on the edge of her seat on the way to her execution, arms bound, lank hair poking free of a decidedly unglamorous cap, David’s queen looks resigned ...

There was a time, as Sean McMeekin reminds us, when public commentators were in near total-consensus. Communism had been tossed aside in eastern Europe in 1989. Two years later it met the same fate in ...

Publishers believe that Churchill sells books. This presumably accounts for the subtitle of Kit Kowol’s excellent monograph on Conservative politics during the Second World War, which, in fact, says ...