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Harrison’s life and career was part of the postwar flowering of the avant-garde, which reached its apotheosis in ...

The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and ...

Despite a few halting steps towards devolving power in Britain, England itself remains a profoundly centralised ...

The Wall is at once a pastoral and a work of horror, an uneasy synthesis of the two genres Haushofer mastered over the course ...

Nicholas Higham’s How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons has just been published. While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was ...

The movie producer​, cinematographer and screenwriter Harrison Starr died in 2024 at the age of 95. Almost no one noticed. If his name was ever mentioned it was usually in connection with those of ...

While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was by far the ...

Lynette Roberts loved obscure words and was not shy about using them. Over the course of two pages, I had to look up ...

T rip ​ has a lightness that Barrodale’s short stories sometimes lack. You Are Having a Good Time shows signs of its age.

Circumstantial evidence (defective internal logic, uncontrolled tone, bizarreness for its own sake) suggests that ...

That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be ...