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George Gissing’s ‘wonderful’ fiction set in sixth-century Italy
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BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...
The most intriguing aspect of this book is that it’s written as a sort of ‘life in the day’ of the Colosseum, that vast edifice begun in Rome by the emperor Vespasian (AD 69–79) to entertain the masse
An African perspective on Augustine of Hippo’s thought
Somehow, it isn’t hard to imagine the scene of battle here, even on a sultry July morning when only the distant growl of a motorbike interrupts the crooning of collared doves. Perhaps it is the quiet.
When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors
Muriel Spark’s irrepressible creative drive
