One of the most fascinating aspects of Wei Shujun’s film Only the River Flows is the continuing contrast between ...

At the end of each of Rooney’s novels, love triumphs partly because it might be the only form of solidarity, the ...

Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.

What next? Is Netanyahu betting on a Hizbullah overreaction? Is he trying to open a second front and to drag ...

Singing, acting, directing, writing: Barbra Streisand always insisted on doing it her way (men like that get called geniuses; it gave Streisand a reputation for being difficult). Malin Hay, who ...

The broad theme of this series, truth and lies, was a favourite subject of Lucian of Samosata, the last of our Greek-language authors. His razor-sharp satire was a model for Erasmus, Voltaire and ...

The worst thing you can say to anyone who works in hospitality, Mendez writes, is ‘Maybe you’ll meet someone!’ But a chance encounter while waiting tables lead to their new niche. In this episode, ...

In the preface to the Decameron Boccaccio describes Florentine society laid waste by bubonic plague in the mid-14th century. But before he gets to that he has a confession for the reader: he has been ...

Linda Kinstler’s first book, Come to This Court and Cry, was published in 2022.

For the last nine months, representatives from the United States, Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Hamas have ostensibly been ...