Essays in Austrian Literature by W G Sebald (Translated from German by Jo Catling) ...

Hitler’s Royal Welcome - The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski (Translated from ...

That rough beast the Great American Novel has been slouching around since the 19th century in the form of hefty books by male authors, from Melville and Hemingway to Franzen and DeLillo. It’s always ...

The Travels of Norman Lewis by John Hatt (ed) ...

The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau (Translated from French by Jody Gladding) ...

Gail looks out of her window and sees someone labouring towards the house. ‘Max, for God’s sake’, she thinks. Once they were a pair of young teachers intending to ‘grow old side by side’. They have ...

For two hundred years, Britain needed coal. The men who braved dreadful danger to hew it out of rocks miles underground were ...

The box lay on the table. ‘Everything is in here,’ the man in white said in a thick German accent. ‘I have arrived this far, taken these actions, removed these people,’ he continued, ‘now it’s your ...

The idea of the army being a safe space may strike us as strange, until you recall that China’s greatest living novelist, Yan ...

Early in 1634, two young Middle Temple lawyers helped organise one of the costliest entertainments ever staged before the Whitehall court, a masque celebrating the reign of Charles I entitled The ...

The soul of John Montague was witness to a lifelong standoff between Irish piety and cosmopolitan licence. Lonely on a Fulbright Fellowship at Yale in 1954, Montague followed his tribal instincts and ...