Mario Vargas Llosa has died at the age of 89. In a recent issue of the London Review, Tony Wood wrote about the ...

When Adolescence was released on Netflix last month, it was pegged as an incisive inquiry into the manosphere and ...

For early modern writers, conception was an occasion to describe the otherwise indescribable: a woman’s orgasm, supposedly ...

The ingredients of compost are dead things or, as the YouTube gardener Bruce Darrell put it, ‘anything that was recently ...

His spaniel was up on its hind legs, paws on his master’s belly, where my paws happily had lately been. He was my host, and I ...

A faint irony in the presentation of this thought tells us that Paudi may be a bit too correct and modern, and Buzzati later ...

On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher ...

Men were frequently rounded up during the German occupation of Rome, to be requisitioned as labour for the construction of ...

Barbara Everett, who died on Friday, 4 April at the age of 92, was for many years a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her books include Poets in Their Time and Young Hamlet: Essays on ...

El Salvador’s Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) opened in 2023. It has capacity for up to forty thousand prisoners, although is said to be only half full. CECOT was built to incarcerate ...

Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’, marked a new departure. There’s not even a pretence ...