It’s Alan Sked, not Brian Holden Reid, who’s “quite wrong” about the causes of the American Civil War (Letters, March 14). Abraham Lincoln did win only a plurality in a four-way race, but as we were ...

At Adam’s funeral, Eve remembers how frightened he was on leaving Paradise and catching flu. But in old age, he had confided ...

368pp. Cape. £18.99. In Spring he dwells at boldly mimetic length on James’s non-starter of a relationship with Katherine, who is having a muted mid-thirties crisis of her own. Although the novel’s ...

A contribution to Yale University Press’s Jewish Lives series, The Many Lives of Anne Frank is part biography, part history ...

The world of honey is far richer and more varied than the pallid jars sold in supermarkets would suggest. There’s black honey ...

A marvellous photograph in the middle of Simon Goldhill’s spry Queer Cambridge: An alternative history shows the ...

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place.

Philip Marsden has made his home in Cornwall, an improbable hotspot for mineral wealth. “In the early nineteenth century, ...

‘Spring with its thrusting leaves and jargling birds is here again / to remind me again of the first real Event’ - W. H. Auden ...

I did a big lecture (big for me, anyway) at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. It was in a way Daniel in the lions' den, for ...

The fourteenth century was a time of ecological disasters: plagues, storms, floods, earthquakes, droughts and famines. It was also, as Shannon Gayk notes, a time of “theological and literary ...