The publication in 1888 of the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío’s collection Azul changed the way the Spanish language was written ...

What do you do with a deposed king? Do you keep him imprisoned until such time as he reaches his natural end, or do you arrange for him to be bumped off? If you go for the former there is a danger ...

In the recent past the most famous slave rebellion in US history, and its enslaved leader, Nat Turner, have been the subject of numerous works. In August 1831, Turner and his nearly sixty followers ...

Green-Templeton College, Woodstock Road, Oxford. Sir, – I met the late Eric Korn by chance at an Antiquarian Book Fair in New York in the late 1980s. When I saw his nametag I asked if he was the TLS ...

I dont know if any readers have kept any of their old school or student essays. I certainly have some of my student ones, which I come across from time to time. I can't actually remember where they ...

I came back from the UK to the USA, from the icy cold to the icy cold. The snow and ice have been so bad here that almost everyone is working from home, events have been widely cancelled (including ...