Shadows Ulrik Skotte The Umbrella Murder The ...

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

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o

A reactionary radical’s case against progress

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

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