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 ...

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

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

No Sketching! - Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy by Charles Darwent ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

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, ...

Reviews of books by Mara van der Lugt From the February 2022 Issue Strife on Earth Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering By Mara van der Lugt LR ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale ...