Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a ...

Anne Carson’s collections of poetry include Autobiography of Red, Men in the Off Hours, Nox and The Beauty of the Husband, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her many translations of classical works ...

Self-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly ...

In M. John Harrison’s​ short story ‘The Crisis’, first published in 2017, the world has been invaded by aliens that look like ...

In early modern England, ‘people were surrounded by feathers all the time,’ as ‘the gentry flew their hawks, servants plucked ...

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...

As a British wartime child living near secret things and sites, I can remember easily respecting the instruction: ...

His was the name on the front cover of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, several issues of which I had recently picked up ...