Rantzen announced lung cancer diagnosis in 2023 and became a vocal assisted dying campaigner

The Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved

On a beautiful film of a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem

‘A corner of Oxford in Cambridge’

Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

“Things that go bump in the night…?” Try sleep-deprived mothers, for starters. British author Celia Fremlin recognized the terrors of trying to hold it together while caring for young children, earnin...

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This exhaustive biography of the Booker winner brings her properly out of the shadows for the first time

A biography of the greatest writer of ghost stories, M. R. James, who was also the foremost scholar of medieval manuscripts and the occult of his day. This is a

“In the matter of fans,” the Gotham Book Mart proclaimed in 1940, “you can only compare with a moving-picture star in Hollywood.” Even taking into