Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs. Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged ...

In 1843, two years before her death at the age of seventy-two, Cassandra Austen told her brother Charles that she had been ‘looking over & destroying some of my Papers’, but was keeping ‘a few letters ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. As Apple has grown, one country above all has proved able to supply the skills and capacity it needs: China.

It isn’t too much of a spoiler, I hope, to say that Robert Harris’s enjoyable new book has a twist not at the end, but at the beginning: it starts out looking like a historical novel and, a chapter or ...

As Apple has grown, one country above all has proved able to supply the skills and capacity it needs: China. What compromises has Apple made in its pivot east? @carljackmiller investigates. Carl ...

After producing two superb collections of short stories, Sweet Home and Dance Move, the Belfast-based writer Wendy Erskine has a lot to live up to in The Benefactors, her debut novel. The good news is ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, the wild man covered in hair, is seduced away from his innocent fellowship with a herd of deer and taken to live in the city. ‘You are beautiful, Enkidu,’ the temple ...

We are saddened to hear of the death of Edmund White. We've lifted the paywall on Richard Davenport-Hines's 2014 review of White's Paris memoir. Richard Davenport-Hines - Scenes from a Literary Life ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. We are saddened to hear of the death of Edmund White. We've lifted the paywall on Richard Davenport-Hines's ...

In Mislaid, the novel that brought her to widespread attention, Nell Zink drew on her background in rural Virginia and tackled transgressive subject matter with a wry sense of humour. Her latest novel ...

We are saddened to hear of the death of Edmund White. We've lifted the paywall on Richard Davenport-Hines's 2014 review of White's Paris memoir. Richard Davenport-Hines - Scenes from a Literary Life ...