Picnics in the sun

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

What makes a novel of ideas?

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

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon

The BBC Proms changed the face of classical music when ‘the people’s festival’ was launched in 1895. The perennially popular event features some of the nation’s favourite tunes from composers inspired by the countryside of the British Isles. Here Kitty Corrigan selects her top ten

FROM LORCA: THE DRAWINGS BY HELEN OPPENHEIMER (1987) ...