The results of the Oscar Wilde Society’s Wilde Wit competition are in. This much we gather from the new issue of Intentions, ...

A man wearing a dark rollneck sweater and a long coat stands in front of a two-tone door, his brow furrowed and his beard ...

I attended a workshop in Fulda, a city right in the middle of Germany. To medievalists, it is best known as the resting place ...

There has been a fair bit of controversy around the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, particularly over issues of ...

It's not only on the President of the USA that questions have landed about the accuracy of his public statements (whether ...

Editors and writers join Lucy Dallas and Alex Clark to talk through the week's issue. Subscribe for free via iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms ...

What’s the purpose of philosophy? Alfred North Whitehead characterized it as a series of footnotes to Plato. You can see his point. On the surface, we don’t seem to have progressed much in the two and ...

Armando Iannucci’s new, upbeat retelling of David Copperfield, Dickens’s most autobiographical story ...

Towards the end of this brief, eclectic book, James C. Scott quotes disapprovingly the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky’s celebration of efforts to make “mad ...

Footnotes to Plato is a TLS Online series appraising the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers. If you ask philosophers – those in the English speaking analytic tradition anyway – ...

Toby Lichtig chats to Sam Leith about formative literature at Jewish Book Week and David Horspool meets Sue Prideaux, winner of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize ...