In the late ninth century, an anonymous scribe in Aquitaine compiled a collection of thirty-one Latin poems. Among them is a ...

Frances Tanzer’s innovative and insightful approach to the postwar cultural reinvention of Vienna focuses on artists, ...

Guadalupe Nettel’s new collection of short stories, The Accidentals, beautifully translated by Rosalind Harvey, begins with ...

400pp. Allen Lane. £25.

322pp. Picador. Paperback, £10.99. Both Newby’s book and From Scenes Like These are set in the 1950s, and we can see that both novels, from different angles, are trying to come to terms with an old, ...

The most impressive fact about the Spanish film-maker Albert Serra’s fragmented memoir, A Toast to St Martirià, is that its central essay came from a speech that was “entirely improvised”, according ...

“From my youth onwards”, wrote the Viennese Jewish philosopher Martin Buber in 1950, “I have found in Jesus my great brother.” Buber was one of many Jewish and Christian thinkers who reflected on ...

In autumn 1988, I travelled by ferry from Helsinki to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Estonia – a four-hour crossing over the Gulf of Finland. The reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had ...

There are approximately 10,000 medieval churches in Britain, and Andrew Ziminski, a stonemason and restorer, has visited more than half of them. Churches of shorter pedigree are not wholly absent in ...