Speaking of her late husband, Valerie Eliot once remarked “He felt he had paid too much to be a poet, that he had suffered ...

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

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

An ambitious novel of ideas, Aurélien Bellanger’s Les derniers jours du Parti socialiste (The Last Days of the Socialist ...

It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The man lived a long time for his era, from 1646 to 1716. That is seventy ...

On Monday evening, lots of us celebrated the opening of the refurbished “Gallery 3” in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge: not just a bit of a party, but the galleries were open to the public late ...

The inauguration of Donald Trump looks different if you are very close to it, as I currently am (living a stone’s throw from the Capitol). Sure, some things don’t change. The media on both sides of ...