The world of honey is far richer and more varied than the pallid jars sold in supermarkets would suggest. There’s black honey ...

At Adam’s funeral, Eve remembers how frightened he was on leaving Paradise and catching flu. But in old age, he had confided ...

A contribution to Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, The Many Lives of Anne Frank is part biography, part history ...

A marvellous photograph in the middle of Simon Goldhill’s spry Queer Cambridge: An alternative history shows the ...

Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, ...

The results of the Oscar Wilde Society’s Wilde Wit competition are in. This much we gather from the new issue of Intentions, ...

A man wearing a dark rollneck sweater and a long coat stands in front of a two-tone door, his brow furrowed and his beard ...

I did a big lecture (big for me, anyway) at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. It was in a way Daniel in the lions' den, for ...

The French mythic-realist Jean Giono was born in 1895 in the small Provençal town of Manosque, and his novels, stories, plays and poems survey this dry, mountainous landscape in all its vicious, ...

She’s “a fractal of our country, her biography a variation on its history, a version of the same story”, says Nour of Mouna, his shape-shifting mother, and of his birth country, Egypt. Nour is the ...