I attended a workshop in Fulda, a city right in the middle of Germany. To medievalists, it is best known as the resting place ...

Towards the end of this brief, eclectic book, James C. Scott quotes disapprovingly the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky’s ...

There has been a fair bit of controversy around the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC, particularly over issues of ...

It's not only on the President of the USA that questions have landed about the accuracy of his public statements (whether ...

that seem to stretch all sense of reason: ...

Daniel Butt (Letters, February 21) concedes one of my main points in his response to my earlier letter. He admits that it was right for West Germany to pay reparations for Nazi crimes, even though the ...

Guess who’s back? “He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the poor; to terrify the timorous ...

544pp. Hamish Hamilton. £25.

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure. Dedicated to the first Christian martyr, the monastery ...

The opening sequence of Kev Lambert’s May Our Joy Endure signals the novel’s intent. Lambert devotes whole pages of prose to the sights, sounds and smells, and the inner lives of guests, at a decadent ...

The Argentine author Antonio di Benedetto’s loose “Trilogy of Expectation”, now complete in English with Esther Allen’s translation of The Suicides, centres on the dogged persistence of men in ...

The practice of hunting with birds has existed in Eurasia for at least 4,000 years. Probably originating in the East, it spread westwards, reaching its apogee in western Europe during the Middle Ages.