That falleth on the grass. But hardly anything has been written since in this beautiful manner, and nothing by Blake. Indeed, when the Nativity has stirred the imaginations of our poets at all, it has ...

and money entered the world’s spleen. Her pacifying grin cut the freezing water oblivion, tranquil in the warming void. She saw the glaciers calve at Nuuksuq, Cromwell’s crew redden the Irish Sea and ...

It is plain that Henry James was a good deal attracted by the ghost story, or, to speak more accurately, by the story of the supernatural. He wrote at least eight of them, and if we wish to see what ...

Sphen the gay penguin died earlier this year. He was eleven years old. He and his partner, Magic, had shared the raising of ...

The Irish aptitude for storytelling has long been lauded as a national characteristic, and its outlets in different literary ...

The Argentine novelist, journalist and librettist Pola Oloixarac pulls no punches. (Unimpressed by Han Kang’s recent Nobel prize, she condemned the new laureate as a “middle-brow author” who writes in ...

The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and in a popular film of 1956, in which he is depicted clambering over mountains ...

This week, Catriona Seth goes in search of the mysterious last queen of France and Maria Margaronis is entranced by the stage adaptation of a children’s classic.

How much is a picture worth? As the world of printed books burgeoned in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, publishers competed with one another in offering richly illustrated compendia of ...

In Second Act: What late bloomers can tell you about reinventing your life, Henry Oliver persuades us that late-life reinvention is not only possible; it is to be encouraged. “We wouldn’t advise ...