There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...

Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...

Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is...

Tooker’s paintings are questions not answers. The drama takes place away from the picture plain, as...

Perry describes a world without a middle class, a world in which, according to 2006 statistics,...

No less than the American financier who donates a museum wing on condition it bears his...

On the morning of March 2, 1908, Lazarus Averbuch, a young Jewish immigrant who had fled...

America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...

Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...

Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...