Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of Poland from the 1690s to the 1730s, could supposedly bend a horseshoe with ...

In the past Michael Longley has been sceptical about his Selected Poems. In an interview with Peter McDonald in 1998 he ...

“Only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind”, W. B. Yeats wrote in 1927; “sex and the dead.” ...

Rob Jackson’s Into the Clear Blue Sky is a fascinating exploration of the atmosphere near and far. It is also a reminder that we’re not making much progress towards a future based on clean energy.

Tucked away in the medieval manuscripts of the works of Lucian, the scintillating Greco-Syrian satirist of the second century AD, is a dialogue entitled Loves. Two friends with different sexual ...

Liliana Corobca is a historian of communism in eastern Europe (she carries out archival work on subjects including censorship, book banning, mass deportations and labour camps), and she moonlights as ...

If the twentieth century was “the age of anxiety”, then the early decades of the new millennium deserve to be called “the age of horror”, for two related reasons. The first is the rise of social media ...