Pray silence for the liturgical word

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

Search for “bog” in this new edition of Seamus Heaney’s poems and you will find the word some 60 times; the 1,200 tissue-thin pages are mulchy with “the squelch and slap of soggy peat”. There is the o

I greatly enjoyed your interview with Alice Roberts about her new book Domination, (Books Interview, September), and its argument that the church was essentially Rome rebadged, with its structures and

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the ...

I’ve just returned from three magical days in the Lake District. Craggy mountains, mist over the fells, and the gentle hum of a Herdwick sheep or two. I stayed near Hill Top, once home to Beatrix Pott

The quintessential intellectual playwright whose erudition convinces theatregoers they are far cleverer and better-read than they actually are