Crim con is one of those great eighteenth-century terms. Jaunty and crisp, it sounds like it must be a lot of fun, whatever it means. The unabbreviated phrase, criminal conversation, is a euphemism ...

The artist Chaim Soutine was obsessed with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. After managing at the age of ...

The prosperity of Asante, in present-day Ghana, was built in part on abundant deposits of precious metal. The British colony ...

The wider circumpolar region is rich in oil, gas, metals and minerals, while thawing ice has increased the navigability of ...

A History of Illustration by D B Dowd ...

Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot with Judith Perrignon (Translated from French by Natasha Lehrer & Ruth Diver) ...

Baby-making has become ‘a capitalist’s wet dream’, writes journalist Alev Scott in Cash Cow. Although the subject has been much explored by scholars, Scott comes at it a little differently – initially ...

One of the great moments, among many, in Paul Fischer’s new book, The Last Kings of Hollywood, occurs in the twelfth chapter, when Fischer describes a party that took place at Francis Ford Coppola’s ...

Venice and the Jews by Alexander Lee ...

The General Strike of 1926 by Jonathan Schneer; The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain by David ...

Somehow, I don’t know how, I stopped reading William Boyd over the past decade. Was it the unappealing Armadillo, or the tedious Nat Tate, or the self-indulgent essays in Bamboo? At any rate, Boyd is ...

The existence of Fashion depends on people buying more clothes than they wear out. If a garment is replaced only when it is worn out there is no Fashion, if it is worn beyond its natural replacement ...