An Afterlife by Francesca Wade ...

The Man Who Made the Modern World by Graham Tomlin ...

Twenty years ago I proposed to a publisher a book about parties in literature and history. I have always liked parties, largely because of their unscripted nature and air of imminent danger. Giving or ...

Looking at the triumphs and turpitude of the modern world, the temptation is always to seek someone responsible. In 1900, succumbing to that temptation, Mark Twain pointed to the 15th-century German ...

Invasion of the Book Snatchers ...

If you upset someone, they might say you’re chopping onions on their heart (yethrem basal all ras efadi), a term similar in ...

Richard Ellmann’s 1959 biography of James Joyce is a triumph. Regularly described as the greatest literary biography of the 20th century, it weaves together the threads of Joyce’s life and work in a ...

The vast geographical spread of the Indo-European (IE) languages is rivalled only by that of the Malayo-­Polynesian ones. Explaining the causes of the enormous landward spread of IE languages requires ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...

Under its longest-serving editor, Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair was that rare thing – a New York society magazine that published serious journalism. @PeterPeteryork looks at what Carter got right. Peter ...