Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

William Hazlitt wrote of ‘The Rape of the Lock’ that ‘you hardly know whether to laugh or weep’, and in this episode Seamus and Mark discuss why Alexander Pope's mock epic masterpiece is at once the ...

By this stage, at least some of the time (Ben in particular didn’t like being pinned down), they were working in a studio on the King’s Road in Chelsea. The exhibition makes much of the similarity ...

I n her Clarendon Lectures ​ , given at Oxford in 2023 and recently published as Poetry’s Nature (Oxford, £25.99), Susan ...

We may have mixed feelings about the title of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Disclosure Day. Doesn’t it sound a bit legal? How close is ‘disclosure’ to its apparent synonyms ‘revelation’ and ‘exposure’ ...

Rosemary is joined again by Vanessa Harding to see why James I’s Stuart settlement eventually failed under the personal rule of Charles I, leading to a civil war in which London became the financial..

Self-Help from the Middle Ages raises some provocative questions about historical figures. Was Thomas Aquinas truly ...

In M. John Harrison’s​ short story ‘The Crisis’, first published in 2017, the world has been invaded by aliens that look like ...

Calvin’s​ Case (1608) is, as one of its judges, Sir Edward Coke, put it, ‘magnum in parvo … a matter of great consequence upon a slender subject’. The case concerned whether a Scottish child could ...

In early modern England, ‘people were surrounded by feathers all the time,’ as ‘the gentry flew their hawks, servants plucked ...