Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth ...

Karl Baedeker wrote in his 1868 guide to Venice that when sitting outside the twin cafés of Quadri and Florian in St Mark’s Square, ‘strangers have here to submit to, with the best grace they can, the ...

Robert Schumann’s teenage ambitions of virtuosity were undone by the onset of debilitating pain in his right hand.

A standard English textbook in China asks students to compose a letter from someone called Li Hua to their British friend Allen, inviting him to a music festival. When the US ban on TikTok briefly ...

Last week, a trove of leaked documents offered a glimpse into the role that large technology companies have played ...

Children’s fiction has its own peculiar power: like a swordstick in an umbrella, it can flash sharp at unexpected moments. Taken seriously, it can work not just to educate but to transform and ...

Édouard Louis, one of France’s most acclaimed young writers, shot to international fame with his first novel, the semi-autobiographical 'End of Eddy'. His third novel, 'Who Killed My Father', revisits ...