Part-way through Natasha Brown’s new novel, Universality, Hannah, a struggling freelance journalist who recently managed to ...

A contribution to Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, The Many Lives of Anne Frank is part biography, part history and part literary and cultural criticism. The first half of the book tells ...

A marvellous photograph in the middle of Simon Goldhill’s spry Queer Cambridge: An alternative history shows the twenty-one-year-old Dadie Rylands, future doyen of British theatre, arm in arm with the ...

It’s Alan Sked, not Brian Holden Reid, who’s “quite wrong” about the causes of the American Civil War (Letters, March 14). Abraham Lincoln did win only a plurality in a four-way race, but as we were ...

272pp. University of California Press. £30 (US $35). C. Marina Marchese The world of honey is far richer and more varied than the pallid jars sold in supermarkets would suggest. There’s black honey, ...

Lessons in Crime is an anthology of fifteen short crime stories published between 1932 and 1978. All of them are set in academia, in a classroom or common room, a minor public school or Oxbridge. It’s ...

On at least two occasions, Zora Neale Hurston’s writings were damaged by fire and water. Copies of Fire!! magazine (1926), published by the bright young things of the Harlem Renaissance (Hurston, ...

For some thirty years, Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, this tiny peninsula on the edge of Europe was producing ...

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place. Unlike the South Pole, it is located at the centre of a frozen ocean, the ...

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