Literature

Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart

Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for

We should treat Roald Dahl as a naïve and unworldly man who never entirely left the realm of make-believe

British philosophy has become much more interesting, but they just don’t make philosophers like they used to

Why M R James is still the greatest ghost story writer

Loneliness is not just a side-effect of Coronavirus: it’s been here for a while

It is the duty of a responsible publisher to reflect the intellectual and social diversity that exists across the world

Understanding George and his reign is crucial to our post-progressivist consideration of the history of patriotism

On the 50th anniversary of his public suicide, Nigel Jones reflects on the strange life and bizarre death of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima

Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection