Oh, I thought you were a man!” were the words uttered by the pioneering nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford when he first met ...

I had always been faulty”, Tom Lee tells us halfway through this troubled memoir of his battle to remain on an even keel. The ...

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, ...

440pp. Princeton University Press. £35 (US $39.95). Stephanie Sandler “The plot always thickens in winter / All roads lead right to it”, says a voice in Maria Stepanova’s book-length poem Holy Winter ...

The 250th anniversary of the death of Oliver Goldsmith at the age of forty-five passed last year with little comment or commemoration. But at Trinity College Dublin and the Irish embassy in London, ...

Do we really need another account of how capitalism and gender stereotypes operate together to create and maintain inequality between men and women? Feminist economists have made this case since the ...

The problem with making the Dead Sea the centre of a historical narrative is that nobody has ever had much enthusiasm for the protagonist. In this sweeping and ambitious account, Nir Arielli has done ...

In his review of Turner and Constable: Art, life, landscape by Nicola Moorby (April 4), Ben Street quotes Constable’s claim that painting is a “branch of natural philosophy of which pictures are but ...