Articles of Note

How many wives did King Henry VIII have? Where does the f-word come from? Wikipedia has the answers. But where did Wikipedia come from?   ... more »


New Books

Dostoevsky in love. What's romance to a man who believed that suffering gives value to existence?... more »


Essays & Opinions

How should we read? For Will Self, “we would read as gourmands eat, gobbling down huge gobbets of text” ... more »