They see themselves as resurrecting the barricades of 1968, and reclaim ‘La Marseillaise’ when they march. If one of the ...

At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

In 2018, Penguin published Giorgio Bassani’s six-part cycle The Novel of Ferrara, translated by Jamie McKendrick, as a single volume. A regular customer at the bookshop where I work recently showed me ...

‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...

Earlier at her party Simon Shaw had seemed a little excited when I met up with him. Was that sexual interest? – but what did ...

Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...

Rosemary is joined again by Vanessa Harding to see why James I’s Stuart settlement eventually failed under the personal rule of Charles I, leading to a civil war in which London became the financial ...

Pablo Scheffer joins Tom to explore the transition from Roman to British to Anglo-Saxon England between the sixth and eighth centuries. They discuss why none of the changes that took place was ...

In this episode, Vadim joins Thomas Jones to discuss the legacy of the Trump-Russia dossier, Christopher Steele’s career before and after its release and how the internal workings of the business ...

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark. Scribner, 509 pp., £30, September, 978 1 3985 6690 3 The Collected Essays of Ralph ...

John Clare’s tombstone in Helpston declares that ‘A poet is born not made,’ echoing sentiments expressed during his lifetime. In 1822 the Eclectic Review noted that ‘such a poet as John Clare, ...