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

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

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, ...

‘Winter was a white page / soon to be ripped / from the calendar / says the rippling script / of Canada geese’ – Jon Stallworthy ...

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 results of the Oscar Wilde Society’s Wilde Wit competition are in. This much we gather from the new issue of Intentions, the society’s newsletter. The challenge was to come up with a quip worthy ...

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, ...

The fourteenth century was a time of ecological disasters: plagues, storms, floods, earthquakes, droughts and famines. It was also, as Shannon Gayk notes, a time of “theological and literary ...

“Our romantic affair with the automobile has cooled”, writes Witold Rybczynski in this brisk, informative history of automotive design. What was once passionate – an infatuation that also seemed an ...