Victory over vichy

The French expression mon brave – literally ‘my brave’ – more accurately equates to the English phrase ‘my good fellow’. However, both the literal meaning and the common usage apply to Éric René Boull

Reminiscences Joe Brainard I Remember 208pp. Daunt. ...

Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive

The great modernist composer Luciano Berio shares his surname with a best-selling Italian brand of olive oil, which seems apt as he was a very Italian sort of modernist. He loved the singing voice, he

Your interesting feature about the role of medieval warhorses in shaping British history (August) reminded me of a subsequent occasion in which horsepower became a critical factor. In April 1660, with

The ‘Mona Lisa of manuscripts’, finally on view