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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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Ptolemy and his family ruled Egypt for nearly three centuries, with fourteen monarchs bearing his name. Although it never ...

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 ...

Iran was placed ‘right at the top of the list’ of America’s enemies by Cheney – even if it took his successors another two ...