This week 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 – though I do think that how you write a life of a character ...

The results of the Oscar Wilde Society’s Wilde Wit competition are in. This much we gather from the new issue of Intentions, the society’s newsletter. The challenge was to come up with a quip worthy ...

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 ...

In The Five (2019), Hallie Rubenhold examined the lives of the victims of Jack the Ripper, women until then remembered only because of the man who murdered them. In her latest book, she turns her ...

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 overgrown. Staring into the camera as if for a mugshot, he holds a newspaper ...

The most remote, harsh and ice-bound regions of the world might seem an unlikely place to hunt for delicate clues about ancient life. But this search has taken Neil Shubin, professor of organismal ...