Literature

And is it for better or for worse? With author and historian, Professor Jeremy Black

The National Gallery are reopening their headline 2020 exhibition on 8th July

In its combination of glacial beauty and lovelorn desperation, Brideshead Revisited speaks to all readers, Alexander Larman writes

Rudyard Kipling’s (in)famous poem “If” reverberates with valuably relevant and humane advice for 2020 Britain

Bereft of God and middle class values, authors are left with identity politics

Jeremy Black reviews Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics, by Tom Keymer

Alexander Larman remembers his time with the decadent author, Sebastian Horsley, 10 years after his death

150 years since Dickens’s death, Alexander Larman evaluates the memorialised writer’s questionable politics

The hip young authors who write about their greatest obsession – themselves

Tom Chesshyre on songs and poetry inspired by trains