The author goes abroad

Mark Twain and the making of an American literary revolution

Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

What makes a novel of ideas?

No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from ...

Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters, says Caroline Bugler

The dandy’s role as icon and irritant