Twenty-five thousand years ago, a boy and a dog walked into the Chauvet cave in what is now southwestern France. The boy carried a torch, and by this light he studied the horses drawn on the walls ...

The division of the peoples of the globe into ‘West’ and ‘East’ is an ancient one, as is what the fifth-century Greek historian Herodotus called the ‘perpetual enmity’ between the two. As ancient ...

A phrase like ‘fortress England’ seems to echo down the centuries, and turns up again in This Little World, Nandini Das’s new ...

Raccoons divide opinion: some see them as bandit-masked evil geniuses, others as cute critters. They owe their success to ...

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The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac (Translated from French by Lauren Elkin) ...

You get a sense of the tone of Séamas O’Reilly’s debut novel before the action even begins. ‘To remember everything is a form of madness … confusion is not an ignoble condition,’ reads the first ...

Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity. A ...

Death of a Democracy by Victor Sebestyen; Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer ...

Born into raffish Polish-Russian gentry in 1870, Vera Gedroits resisted convention from an early age. Passionate and ...