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, ...

264pp. University of California Press. £42 (US $49.95). Paul Binski Whenever somebody muses on how impressive medieval churches must have been to their contemporaries, I think, “Sure, but are they any ...

“Dreaming has a share in history”, claimed Walter Benjamin in 1927. In the early twentieth century, both Freud and Jung saw dreams as foundational to the emerging discipline of psychoanalysis, while ...

This week, Peter Holland treads the boards in Elizabethan London in search of Shakespeare before the Globe; and Muriel Zagha on a captivating tale of cheese-making in the Jura.