Unlike Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping did not pretend to be a poet, a philosopher or a calligrapher. The Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, in a mere three volumes, offer few hints about the person himself.

Out of their cupboards they come tumbling, the skeletons thrust there in haste, or tucked neatly in, locked away by several or furtively concealed by one. William Trevor has brought out a new book and ...

Steven Price is an award-winning novelist and poet with a talent for shading in the past. Lampedusa opens in 1955, when the real-life Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who has just been diagnosed with ...

In 1971 Bernard Levin wrote an excoriating article in The Times about the lately deceased former Lord Chief Justice Rayner Goddard, a noisome piece of legal excrement who is said to have ejaculated ...

In both the USA and Latin America, there is a long-standing belief that the countries of the Americas have a common interest and destiny. Anthony Pagden assesses the prospects for transcontinental ...

In both the USA and Latin America, there is a long-standing belief that the countries of the Americas have a common interest and destiny. Anthony Pagden assesses the prospects for transcontinental ...

The days when LSD made headlines as ‘The Most Dangerous Thing Since the Atom Bomb’ are long gone; now we’re in a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’, with Prince Harry drinking ayahuasca tea and Mike Tyson ...

Boris Pasternak put his signature on every page he wrote. His lyric poems, letters, memoirs brim with personal feeling. Even Dr Zhivago is as much autobiography as epic. By contrast his son Evgeny, ...

In both the USA and Latin America, there is a long-standing belief that the countries of the Americas have a common interest and destiny. Anthony Pagden assesses the prospects for transcontinental ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. When Augusto Pinochet arrived in London for medical treatment in 1998, he was surprised to find himself ...

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. When Augusto Pinochet arrived in London for medical treatment in 1998, he was surprised to find himself ...

Born in 1940, Angela Carter has published eight novels including The Magic Toyshop (1967, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Several Perceptions (1968, Somerset Maugham Award), Love (1971), The Infernal ...