Tom McCarthy, writing in the London Review of Books, described James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ as a ‘heavy book, a book full of ...

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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On 19 October, the World Food Programme announced that it would be reducing its monthly food assistance in Gaza, providing support to 1.1 million people rather than 1.6 million. On 22 October, the ...

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

In the long history of mass racial killing in the United States, Nat Turner’s revolt stands out as the one instance in which the perpetrators were Black and the victims white. Read more about Signs in ...