His title is shrewdly chosen. ‘Genius’ is the word we humans use to assert our mental superiority. Nature’s genius is its ...

It was thus easy to assume that Benson was a conventional pillar of the establishment. A son of Edward White Benson, first headmaster of Wellington College and archbishop of Canterbury, he taught at ...

To the Postbox - The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf by Stephen Barkway & Stuart N Clarke (edd) ...

The French imperial enterprise in India was off to an unpromising start. Small wonder it took over half a century to ...

The protagonist is Tim Cook, who became Apple CEO in 2011. ‘Here’s to the sensible ones … the round pegs in the round holes,’ ...

Sarah Dunant’s latest work of historical fiction, The Marchesa, centres on the life of Isabella d’Este, marchesa of Mantua (1474–1539). Isabella married Francesco Gonzaga, the marchese, at the age of ...

After producing two superb collections of short stories, Sweet Home and Dance Move, the Belfast-based writer Wendy Erskine has a lot to live up to in The Benefactors, her debut novel. The good news is ...

‘Dad,’ my son said in early 2022. ‘You can’t write a book about boys and men without mentioning Andrew Tate.’ I responded with the question millions of parents have probably asked: ‘Who is Andrew Tate ...

Cut from the Same Canvas - Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell ...