In “Four Points of the Compass,” Jerry Brotton explores the disorienting, dizzying history of our relationship to direction.

In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

It was a fast-fashion button down with epaulets that this policeman decided was too close to a military uniform. That got me ...

The discovery at UCL of three books owned by Oscar Wilde, the acclaimed author and playwright, has provided an invaluable ...

Medicare and Social Security represent successes in facing the realities of aging, but their imperfections also show how much ...

A campaign to return a 13 th century bible to its ancestral home in Salisbury Cathedral has been hailed by the Culture ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

Indian academia is sometimes unfairly maligned because it was not designed for the decentralised, instantaneous information transmission of the 21st century.

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

ASTANA – Recently discovered maps reveal new layers of Kazakh statehood, suggesting it could be 12 centuries old, said Mukhit ...