Why is it, when Islamism has damaged the image of Islam so comprehensively, that the faith seems to retain a huge popularity?

England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

Ahead of next year’s centenary of The Great Gatsby, the inevitable revisiting of Fitzgerald gets under way. Two new ...

The whorehouse of thought” is how Claude Vignon, a journalist in Balzac’s Lost Illusions (1837–43), describes newspapers.

For decades the so-called New York School of painters – associated chiefly with abstract expressionism – has been synonymous ...

It is said that after tobacco arrived from the New World in the late sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth took a discreet pull on a clay pipe before deciding against smoking. James I’s reaction was even ...

For such small fish, anchovies pack a big punch. They can be eaten on their own or as part of almost any dish, from pasta sauces to vinaigrettes. Yet for every person who loves them there will be ...

On the shores of the Arabian Sea in western Pakistan, Gwadar was once an out-of-the-way fishing town. Since 2015 Chinese investment has transformed it into Gwadar Port City, maritime terminus of the ...