Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy opens with an absence – the sort of absence that might have proved fatal to a book written by a less determined author. In his preface, Charles Darwent lists his fruitless ...