Common sense is no use against it, the heat is too intense for it and, if you are Frank Sinatra, singing your manly heart out in 1957, you are damned if ...

The Zambezi is the fourth of the great rivers of Africa, after the Nile, Congo and Niger, 1,600 miles long and draining 540,000 square miles. Rising at ...

David McDowall (Letters, January 19) amplified my contention that UNRWA entrapped Palestinian refugees by recalling the two failed resettlement schemes that were proposed, one in Jordan with Yarmuk ...

Once again it is time to picture George Orwell’s “regular reviewer” of books: a man securing his moth-eaten dressing gown and sitting down at a rickety ...

A Fairy Tale Unmasked is two books in one. The first part tells the story of a young teacher, Dieter Vaupel, who arrives in a small, idyllic German town, ...

The TLS - We meet Cheryl Glickman, the narrator of Miranda July’s startling and disquieting novel, The First Bad Man, engaged in an act that, initially, defines her: the act of imagining herself.... A ...

It’s an often quoted fact that the surfaces of Mars and the Moon are mapped more comprehensively than the floors of Earth’s oceans. But thanks to advances in submersible scanning and imaging ...

Peggy Guggenheim wrote her own account of her life. She had wanted to call it “Five Husbands and Some Other Men”, though the first of those husbands, ­Laurence Vail, himself ...

After the war, the poet returned briefly to AIR and, following the broadcasting company’s division at the time of India’s Partition, to Lahore and to various other cities in the new Muslim nation of ...

“Musth, Caitlin O’Connell tells us, is Hindi for “ecstasy”. Derived from a Persian word meaning intoxication, it once referred to Sufis whose love of God left them disoriented and in ...

We have all been looking over our shoulders lately. Our current global battle with coronavirus inevitably recalls the influenza pandemic that concluded in 1920, having wreaked further destruction on ...

The publication of the complete Granada trilogy, by the Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour (1946–2014), in Kay Heikkinen’s vivid and elegant translation, is a ...