London has always been famous for its many and beautiful parks”, announced a 1966 guidebook to the capital; “just what those ...

Merchant Ivory' is often used as shorthand for lavish period films. A new doco tracks the remarkable life of the two men behind the production company, and the love that kept them going.

Luke Edward Hall on designing covers for the Faber YA Illustrated Classics Editions of E. M. Forster’s Maurice and A Room ...

It would also be, for the author and for early readers, a kind of prophecy. This is an edited version of Colm Tóibín’s introduction to a new edition of Maurice by E M Forster (Sceptre ...

Emily Cushion explores Forster and Hughes’ romantic yet dissatisfied portrayals of Cambridge life and asks why everyone wants ...

In Lapoujade’s description, the worlds Dick constructs are always on the point of collapsing, precisely because they are ...

My subject this morning is Leelananda De Silva with comments on his book The Long Littleness of Life: a memoir of government, ...

She mixed with the Bloomsbury Group, and set up home with two men but her most sensual paintings were of women. Now a major ...

Is media news truly in the public interest when it causes mental anguish? People today are burdened by accumulating and interconnected crises.

Writers have often turned to the royal family for inspiration, but in recent years it has been fiction, rather than factual biographies, that have grown in popularity. And the royals are not only ...