The term “regime change”, Susan Doran informs readers, dates from the 1920s, but the concept is as old as politics. It offers ...

Tucked away in the medieval manuscripts of the works of Lucian, the scintillating Greco-Syrian satirist of the second century ...

The Medieval Scriptorium: Making books in the Middle Ages is a highly readable account of developments in book production in western Europe during the Middle Ages, surveying and contextualizing many ...

The majority of the Catalan novelist Mercè Rodoreda’s adult life was lived in exile. Born in Barcelona in 1908, she fled Spain when that city fell to Franco’s Nationalist troops in 1939 (having made ...

Guide Me Home, the final instalment of Attica Locke’s Darren Mathews trilogy, is a rich and satisfying conclusion to one of the great American crime series of recent years. The achievement of these ...

Promising comfort is what a good stew should offer – but boeuf en daube, from Provence, with its cragged hunks of meat bespangled with olives and doused in shimmering, sepia-coloured broth, yields (if ...

She-Wolves is a continuation of sorts of Paulina Bren’s previous book, The Barbizon: The hotel that set women free (TLS, April 2, 2021). That was about the once famous hotel in New York, which opened ...