Jean Giono’s hallucinatory Fragments of a Paradise appears here for the first time in English translation. Giono dictated the novel to his secretary, Mlle Alice, over a four-month period in 1944 ...

Monasteries and convents have in modern times become marginal, countercultural institutions, and the people who live in them are rarities as well as oddities. At university, some contemporaries of ...

Dr Johnson never said that when a man is tired of supper he is tired of life, but he suggested exactly that when, in a moment of depression, he described supper as a turnpike through which he had to ...

Emilie went on to translate Mandeville’s most celebrated work, The Fable of the Bees, a philosophical treatise centred on a ...

His father also put Mondrian off God. He became a convert to theosophy, which teaches that there is a spiritual reality ...

Postmark Amherst - The Letters of Emily Dickinson by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell (edd) ...

You Mean There’s No Billiard Room? - London’s Lost Interiors by Steven Brindle ...

Writing a Gospel of Success by Alexandra Popoff ...

Britpop has morphed into Litpop. Brett Anderson, of the electrifying neo-glam outfit Suede, and Luke Haines, of the archly provocative Auteurs, have each published two volumes of memoirs; Alex James ...

I have been thinking a good deal recently about the night side of the arts of Regency England. Choosing a selection of reverse-lit, partly transparent Regency prints for a small exhibition has led me ...

Between 1918 and 1922, Oswald Spengler published the two volumes of his The Decline of the West. The title gnawed at the minds of the intelligentsia and sent them searching for evidence of the ...

Dogs are natural philosophers – so Socrates thought. A clerical friend has often spoken to me in the same vein, describing the ‘peace of dog that passes all understanding’. Silent but omniscient, the ...