It isn’t necessary to care about any of this to have a nice time at the Lohengrin thermal baths, a short drive from Bayreuth, the Bavarian town where the Wagner festival has been held almost every ...

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

Things are normal,’ Sofya texted me on Sunday. ‘People really can’t wait to vote. It’s a good ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

But by the late 1600s, the most important commodity from Russia’s forests was no longer fur or fish; it was the trees themselves. The expanding Russian Empire required a naval fleet to defend itself: ...

Lydia Davis will reflect on some of the concepts of the Stoic philosophers, especially the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, author of a private notebook of meditations written, many of them, in his tent ...

Richard Wollheim​ once recalled receiving a postcard from Adrian Stokes some time in the early 1960s (the postcard, he said, ...