It may seem like an odd pairing, but the friendship between the Iranian and Jewish communities isn’t new. Dating back to the ...

On 18 May 1781, Tupac Amaru II’s rebellion came to an abrupt and grisly end. Seized by Spanish forces, the Peruvian ...

So now we know what happens when you sneer at voters as ‘garbage’. When you view them as ‘deplorables’. When you treat them ...

The candidate who said Americans should be “unburdened by what has been” is now a has-been. The irony will be lost on her.

There are many reasons to remember Quincy Jones, who has died aged 91 in Los Angeles. Let me deal with just one. Jones was ...

In recent years, Australian government policy has increasingly linked access to essential benefits for families with ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Net Zero is necessary to combat the ‘existential threat’ of climate change at a cost of ...

The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...

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Fresh out of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz introduced herself to Joseph Heller: ‘Dear Joseph Heller, I am a stacked 18-year-old blonde on Sunset Boulevard. I am also a writer.’ It was ...

Few women have had more written about them, mostly of a critical, salacious nature, than Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee for whom Edward VIII gave up his crown. Much of the gossip has fed ...

Recipes are like magic potions. They promise transformations,’ says Bee Wilson in her introduction to Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake (Faber, £12.99), a collection of classic authors’ recipes.