Charles III’s state visit to the US occasioned a good deal of commentary either celebrating the ...

Two years after the end of the Civil War, William Seward, the US secretary of state, negotiated the purchase of ‘Russian America’ – Alaska – for $7.2 million, equivalent to $165 million today. The New ...

James is joined by investigative journalists Peter Geoghegan and Ethan Shone to discuss what Peter Mandelson’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein reveals about the vast influence network maintained by ...

Mansfield refused to go along with the fashion for more generous grading, earning the nickname – in which he revelled – ...

Whether or not the story is true, an appeal to hasard seemed to resonate with those who lived through the dislocation of the post-revolutionary years. Demobilised soldiers and rural immigrants swelled ...

Julian Barnes’s​ latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel ...

The successful passage of the 2026 Tobacco and Vapes Act into law is a major milestone on the journey towards ...

Maritime trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks: the Suez Canal, for example, or the Malacca Strait ...

Figuring out which proxies are generally dependable and under which circumstances is a complex business, and this is ...

Lucky Peer!’ Both a state-of-the-nation novel and an extended Bildungsroman, Pontoppidan’s narrative follows the vicissitudes ...

Seamus and Mark begin their new series by looking at the playful but often troubling treatment of desire in Marlowe's Hero and Leander, a poem that contains one of the most explicit depictions of sex ...

The notion of the Great Composer – the individual genius, whose inimitable music is an expression of a singular ...