Sir Peter Russell (1913–2006) was King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1981. He was also Director of Portuguese Studies, and the author of a ...

“To be Carmanised”, said one of the courtroom victims of George Carman QC, “was a dire experience.” Carman (1929–2001) was the most famous barrister of the late twentieth century – the man who got ...

Rebecca L. Davis’s magisterial new book, Fierce Desires: A new history of sex and sexuality in America, concludes with a 2023 decision by a federal judge in Texas, Matthew Kacsmaryk, to outlaw the ...

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Toby Lichtig assesses the latest recreation of Bob Dylan, the man and the myth, and David Gallagher discusses an academic and spy who inspired the work of Javier Marías Boris Dralyuk on a compelling ...

Reading, we all know, is a peculiar act. It takes us out of ourselves into realms we might otherwise have missed – deeper, wider, stranger, perhaps launching us backwards or forwards in time, or into ...

The UK debut of a stand-out Australian poet of her generation, The Jaguar: Selected poems by Sarah Holland-Batt (b.1982) presents a generous selection from three collections of poems, Aria (2008), The ...

This smartly presented story, the first in a dual language series that will feature international authors writing on aspects ...

Stepping out of his apartment block in Paris’s chic sixteenth arrondissement, the filmmaker Robert Bristol narrowly avoids ...

Standing in the full / glare of the war, I’m a surface / reflecting its awesome light”, Oksana Maksymchuk declares in Still ...

Book titles that begin “The Treasury of …” suggest a box that you open to find jewels inside. The Treasury of Folklore: ...