It is a telling irony that a historical novel could be the quintessential literary work of the post-truth era. Perhaps no other novel better captures the malleability of truth than The Mirror and the ...

Few novels by a writer previously unknown to me have excited me as much as Richard Zimler’s international bestseller The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon. Set in Portugal at the close of the fifteenth century ...

Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine presence in everyday life. Costica Bradatan explores what such a figure has in common with ...

Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine presence in everyday life. Costica Bradatan explores what such a figure has in common with ...

Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine presence in everyday life. Costica Bradatan explores what such a figure has in common with ...

Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine presence in everyday life. Costica Bradatan explores what such a figure has in common with ...

As its founding Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs was almost single-handedly responsible for the distinctive style of Channel 4 from the time it came into being in 1982. The new channel broke the lowbrow ...

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In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

Lydia Davis taught herself Norwegian in order to read his books. Haruki Murakami translated him into Japanese. Karl Ove Knausgaard reveres him. Awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature an ...

Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine presence in everyday life. Costica Bradatan explores what such a figure has in common with ...