In the late ninth century, an anonymous scribe in Aquitaine compiled a collection of thirty-one Latin poems. Among them is a ...

Frances Tanzer’s innovative and insightful approach to the postwar cultural reinvention of Vienna focuses on artists, ...

Guadalupe Nettel’s new collection of short stories, The Accidentals, beautifully translated by Rosalind Harvey, begins with ...

400pp. Allen Lane. £25.

Hard power, soft belief and the future of the West 320pp. Bodley Head. £25. Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska The most revealing moment in The Technological Republic arrives early on. The ...

To return or not to return? That is the question that has defined the long-running debate around the sculptures made almost 2,500 years ago to adorn the buildings of the Acropolis of Athens. They tend ...

322pp. Picador. Paperback, £10.99. Both Newby’s book and From Scenes Like These are set in the 1950s, and we can see that both novels, from different angles, are trying to come to terms with an old, ...

To learn that Ayn Rand wrote an article entitled “Why I like stamp collecting” may make one think differently of Ayn Rand, but probably not of stamp collecting. Robert Irwin hastens to assure the ...

The most impressive fact about the Spanish film-maker Albert Serra’s fragmented memoir, A Toast to St Martirià, is that its central essay came from a speech that was “entirely improvised”, according ...