Part-way through Natasha Brown’s new novel, Universality, Hannah, a struggling freelance journalist who recently managed to ...

A contribution to Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, The Many Lives of Anne Frank is part biography, part history ...

The world of honey is far richer and more varied than the pallid jars sold in supermarkets would suggest. There’s black honey ...

A marvellous photograph in the middle of Simon Goldhill’s spry Queer Cambridge: An alternative history shows the ...

At Adam’s funeral, Eve remembers how frightened he was on leaving Paradise and catching flu. But in old age, he had confided ...

Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, ...

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place.

I did a big lecture (big for me, anyway) at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. It was in a way Daniel in the lions' den, for ...

368pp. Cape. £18.99. In Spring he dwells at boldly mimetic length on James’s non-starter of a relationship with Katherine, who is having a muted mid-thirties crisis of her own. Although the novel’s ...

She’s “a fractal of our country, her biography a variation on its history, a version of the same story”, says Nour of Mouna, his shape-shifting mother, and of his birth country, Egypt. Nour is the ...

The fourteenth century was a time of ecological disasters: plagues, storms, floods, earthquakes, droughts and famines. It was also, as Shannon Gayk notes, a time of “theological and literary ...