The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to ...

Hooke’s illustration appears in “Micrographia” (1665), a volume of fold-out plates accompanied by prose so captivating that it kept the diarist Samuel Pepys up reading all night. Hooke ...

There’s a scene in the coming-of-a-certain-age novel All Fours when Miranda July describes an exquisite hotel room, the kind ...

The Oxfordshire countryside is often better associated with culinary ambition. Old, crooked pubs and sweeping hotels that ...