If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...

Kathleen Jamie is the author of several poetry collections, including The Queen of Sheba, The Tree House and The Overhaul, and three essay collections, Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing.She became ...

During the 1930s and into the war years, the Mail’s readers regarded refugees, in Hatherley’s neat formulation, as ‘a series ...

British generals and politicians keep warning that the UK needs to be ready for imminent war or – in the government’s ...

Gulbadan Begum was the daughter of the founder of the Mughal Empire. She is the only Mughal woman known to have ...

In 2004, the House of Lords allowed the appeal of nine foreign nationals against their indefinite detention under the ...

S omething very strange has been going on. Picking up the paperback of Ocean Vuong’s first novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which has now sold more than a million copies, you encounter blurbs ...

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Israel’s codename for its attack on Iran, launched last Friday, was Operation Rising Lion, a pointed reference ...

‘I want to write a poem of a new class – a Don Juan, without the mockery and impurity,’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend in 1844, ‘and admitting of as much philosophical dreaming and ...

Ouvidor 63 is an illegal but tolerated artist-led occupation of an office block in downtown São Paulo. There are perhaps two ...