If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

In recent decades, critical thinking about the “liveliness” of the natural world has gained momentum. Anthropologists and ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle came to fame with According to the Law (1993; 1996 in English): four linked stories about “the ...

424pp. Princeton University Press. £25 (US $29.95). Charles S. Singleton’s version of The Divine Comedy (first published in six volumes between 1970 and 1975, and now reissued by Princeton University ...

Gardens feature in every genre of Roman literature, from obscene epigrams to dry agricultural treatises, though often in the background or on the margins – as the setting for Cicero’s philosophical ...

In the opening and title poem of his ninth collection, Ian Duhig recalls finding “a pebble the exact shape of a light bulb”, at which point another “lit … in a thought bubble” above his “dull bulb of ...

This follow-up to Bookworm (2018), Lucy Mangan’s memoir about the books she read in childhood, chronicles some of the reading that has provided entertainment and solace in her adult life, particularly ...

Whose fault is it? In the early hours of November 24, 2021, a dinghy crammed with migrants capsized in the English Channel. It was not the only small boat attempting the crossing from France that ...