“It was in the kitchen”, we are told about Herr Aalbert Scellinc, the protagonist of Earwig, and “moved its limbs in a long spiky manner … Long tufts of yellowish hair sprouted from the ear’s thin ...

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 ...

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 ...

This selection of stories and personal recollections by Pedro Almodóvar was put together at the instigation of his assistant, Lola, a scenario that could belong in one of the Spanish director’s films.

Tucked away in the medieval manuscripts of the works of Lucian, the scintillating Greco-Syrian satirist of the second century AD, is a dialogue entitled Loves. Two friends with different sexual ...

The term “regime change”, Susan Doran informs readers, dates from the 1920s, but the concept is as old as politics. It offers a suitable frame within which to consider the years immediately following ...

On February 19, 1933, participants at the first All-Soviet Congress of Collective Farm Shock Workers were treated to a radical new take on the old problem of the transition from slavery to feudalism. ...