At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...

In 2018, Penguin published Giorgio Bassani’s six-part cycle The Novel of Ferrara, translated by Jamie McKendrick, as a single volume. A regular customer at the bookshop where I work recently showed me ...

Earlier at her party Simon Shaw had seemed a little excited when I met up with him. Was that sexual interest? – but what did ...

Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...

They see themselves as resurrecting the barricades of 1968, and reclaim ‘La Marseillaise’ when they march. If one of the ...

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner, 509 pp., £30, September, 978 1 3985 6690 3 The Collected Essays of Ralph ...

It can be hard​ to imagine a world in which people justified slavery, yet for most of recorded history enslavement ...

The title, Switzy, is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold. Emma ...

He also directed the homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to make a list of ‘confirmed’ citizens eligible to vote ...