‘My whole life has been a search for the miraculous,’ Bruce Chatwin says. Each of these essays, fragments and sketches written between 1972 and the author’s recent death are way-stations in the search ...

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

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

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand advertisements and other undesirables fall foul of something called the Unicode ...

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

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

A divorcee in her sixties named Rose travels to Almería to see a specialist, who may or may not be a quack, about a mystery ailment that may or may not be imagined. She is accompanied by her daughter, ...

1920s 1930s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 19th Century 21st Century Adolf Hitler Algeria Ancient World Architecture & Engineering Aristocracy Art Austria Autobiography & Memoir Balkans Biography Britain ...

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