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The money part is solid golden age. And, of course, now utterly vanished. Carter is from Ottawa, a sensible capital city of ...

A Memoir by Josephine Baker (Translated from French by Anam Zafar & Sophie Lewis); Josephine Baker’s Secret War: The African ...

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It’s a bit late now; we’re a third of the way through and there’s a lot more of this to come.’ A lot of what comes in William ...

Towards the end of Peter Ackroyd’s first novel, The Great Fire of London, he says; ‘This is not a true story but certain things follow from other things.’ It is a good description of his latest novel, ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter ...

Ruth Brandon has set herself the unenviable task of sorting out the history of the Surrealists between 1917 and 1945, and trying to define what Surrealism meant at any given moment. The word first ...

If one goal of modern biography is to lay bare secrets and perversions, then Salvador Dalí must necessarily make a disappointing subject, for he spent a lucrative lifetime laying them all bare himself ...

Just towards the end of Penelope Fitzgerald's brilliant new novel, the reader is treated to a ghost-story, told in the manner of M R James. It is the harrowing tale of an 1870s archaeological dig in a ...