The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination.

The Green Party’s Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton and Denton by-election with 41 per cent of the vote.

My husband and I agreed to divorce on the Minor New Year, the day that marks the beginning of preparations for ...

The origin legend was a widespread medieval genre used to account not only for peoples and nations, but also for ...

Much has been made of Caravaggio’s obvious sympathy with the poor, his turning of the Roman tavern and the Neapolitan street into the settings for high religious art. But he didn’t really paint the ...

While their imagined relationship owes something to that between Mephistopheles and Faustus, the play’s intimate prose could hardly be further from Marlowe’s hyperbolic flash and thunder. Marlowe has ...

A s Adèle Yon ​ tells it in Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth, when she was eighteen she went to a party, taking with her a bag of weed. A distant cousin who was also at the party made a beeline for her, or ...

Wotton’s innate theatricality rendered his diplomacy unpredictable and endears him to the author. Writing predominantly in ...

The Abuelas didn’t at first grasp the magnitude of what the regime had done. The junta, it was later revealed, was guilty not just of disappearing and killing adults they suspected of opposing them, ...

I don’t want to be bored by someone else’s imagination.’ Concise and truthful Davis’s formula may be. But it scarcely seems conclusive. Since when did things agree to bother us in a positive way only?

It just means they can’t get beautiful models.’ In her memoir (Skyhorse, £30), Melania Trump says that she met Donald in 1998 ...