Finding a voice of bronze

Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins, faced with the colossal challenge of illustrating both The Iliad and The Odyssey , eschewed grandstand views of monumental battles, looking instead for what he calls the little cracks in the paving stones

A freewheeling Cavafy for modern times

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

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

How Old Norse mythology endured in the Christian era