Common sense is no use against it, the heat is too intense for it and, if you are Frank Sinatra, singing your manly heart out in 1957, you are damned if ...
The Zambezi is the fourth of the great rivers of Africa, after the Nile, Congo and Niger, 1,600 miles long and draining 540,000 square miles. Rising at ...
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David McDowall (Letters, January 19) amplified my contention that UNRWA entrapped Palestinian refugees by recalling the two failed resettlement schemes that were proposed, one in Jordan with Yarmuk ...
The catastrophe of the First World War led Sigmund Freud to analyse the tensions between the individual and society. Human nature was predisposed towards death and destruction. To create the ...
Not everyone has been looking forward to the publication of Memoirs by Robert Lowell, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc. “Do we really want more material on the Lowell family saga?’’ ...
The British appear always to have been conflicted about imperialism. Here is the highland chieftain, Calgacus, in full cry against the Roman Empire after its fleet, commanded by Agricola ...
Once again it is time to picture George Orwell’s “regular reviewer” of books: a man securing his moth-eaten dressing gown and sitting down at a rickety ...
Eric Foner observes in his TLS review of Barack Obama’s much trumpeted A Promised Land that Americans don’t elect leaders for their literary talent: “One of Andrew Jackson’s campaign slogans in the ...
Some years ago, my wife and I were in Jerusalem when we decided to visit the Hasidic neighbourhood of Mea Shearim. During my late teens, I had spent two years studying in a yeshiva just outside ...
Concealed authorship and in-built critique in the whodunnit to end them all ...
The publication of the complete Granada trilogy, by the Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour (1946–2014), in Kay Heikkinen’s vivid and elegant translation, is a ...
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