‘damsels’ and ‘fellows’

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Slavery and race in Revolutionary France

What makes a novel of ideas?

The Möbius Book Catherine Lacey (Granta, £16.99) ...

The poet’s exasperation with his provincial upbringing

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