Guadalupe Nettel’s new collection of short stories, The Accidentals, beautifully translated by Rosalind Harvey, begins with ...

There are approximately 10,000 medieval churches in Britain, and Andrew Ziminski, a stonemason and restorer, has visited more than half of them. Churches of shorter pedigree are not wholly absent in ...

Philip Hoare’s exhilarating new book often feels like a print by William Blake. In the centre stands Blake himself, with arms outspread, his pale blue eyes meeting our gaze, his body radiating light ...

Though a talented poet, Rebecca Watts remains best known for her essay “The Cult of the Noble Amateur”, published in the poetry journal PN Review in 2018. It was ironic that this piece attracted much ...

A person’s proximity to death is often a turning point: an opportunity to reflect on ventures, obsessions and the mistakes of the past before it becomes too late. Martín Caparrós acknowledges this ...

On a bright, chilly morning in Cambridge, England, a few weeks ago – as a New Yorker “Talk of the Town” piece might have it – about 150 people gathered at the University of Cambridge’s Computer ...

“Nobody knows anything,” the screenwriter William Goldman once said. “Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work”, Which means it’s a wonder that any ...

Germany’s colonial ambitions in Cameroon were short-lived. The region became a protectorate in 1884, under Otto von Bismarck, then in 1916, during the First World War, the colonists were forced to ...

Laura E. Helton’s Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black collectors created archives and remade history explores the labour and risks involved in assembling the archival collections held across the ...

In April 1576, James Burbage, a joiner turned actor, signed a lease on a half-acre patch of land in Shoreditch. The district was conveniently located outside the walls of the City of London, with its ...