I came back from the UK to the USA, from the icy cold to the icy cold. The snow and ice have been so bad here that almost everyone is working from home, events have been widely cancelled (including ...

“I beg you to send me immediately the remaining Vols:”, Henry Fielding wrote to Samuel Richardson in October 1748. Fielding was requesting the final volumes of Clarissa; or, The History of a Young ...

What do you do with a deposed king? Do you keep him imprisoned until such time as he reaches his natural end, or do you arrange for him to be bumped off? If you go for the former there is a danger ...

Recipes can take many forms, from detailed sets of instructions to simple lists. Stuck to my refrigerator is a carefully laminated card containing my sister-in-law’s guide (in French) to making ...

I dont know if any readers have kept any of their old school or student essays. I certainly have some of my student ones, which I come across from time to time. I can't actually remember where they ...

Green-Templeton College, Woodstock Road, Oxford. Sir, – I met the late Eric Korn by chance at an Antiquarian Book Fair in New York in the late 1980s. When I saw his nametag I asked if he was the TLS ...

It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The man lived a long time for his era, from 1646 to 1716. That is seventy ...