I recommend The Zone of Interest with the greatest caution: it’s not an easy watch

Children of Athens is an absorbing romp through Greek (and Roman) history

This is no time for a slimmed-down monarchy

Insta-obsessed diners can’t see the food for the reels

The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play

Napoleon and Goethe: Touchstone of Genius by Raymond Keene

The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie

How much public money has been wasted on a scheme which will be quietly retired?

Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton