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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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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J.H. Prynne has always seemed to me to represent the real potential of poetry, as an art that can encompass ...

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

‘Iwant a husband who is between sixty and seventy years old,’ announced a Parisian classified ad in 1813. ‘If possible, I’d prefer a former nobleman whose misfortunes, which are regrettably common, ...