This is Alice B. Toklas, ventriloquised by her partner, Gertrude Stein: Defiantly, flagrantly clairvoyant. Daring us to ...

There’s a big difference between being a fan and being a super-fan. Not all fans would be able to differentiate between the ...

The biggest blockbuster hit of the Elizabethan theatre was not by William Shakespeare or Christopher Marlowe or Ben Jonson.

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Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her ...

Every Christmas the proportion of money we spend online escalates. This year probably more than a third of all our festive ...

I thought we might be on to a winner with this book after the opening sentence. ‘From an early age,’ Simon Mayall writes, ‘I ...

The talented military historian Max Boot has published a well-researched life of Ronald Reagan that is fundamentally wrong.

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James Baldwin matters. To veteran Baldwin admirers, his renewed prominence comes as a surprise after decades of indifference.

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Brave Assad fled to Putin. Where will Putin flee?’ asked Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky after the Syrian dictator ...