Early in the morning of the fourth of August, 1892.
Hot, hot, hot ... very early in the morning, before the factory whistle, but, even at this hour, everything shimmers and quivers under the...
As I write, the temperature in New York City is 86° F. The relative humidity is 56, the winds are south-westerly at seven mph, visibility stands at six miles. What do those numbers really...
David Benedictus is the Editor of Readings for BBC Radio’s Book at Bedtime. His Sunny Intervals and Showers is ill-suited for late-night reading, since it is not good to have the mind...
Not long after the First World War, the movie baron Samuel Goldwyn set up a stable of Eminent Authors in an attempt to give silent screenplays more literary weight. One of the recruits was the...
The last day of June 1858 was a warm day, though not the hottest of that summer. Two weeks earlier the temperature in London had reached 90 degrees, the highest ever recorded. Even so the...
If climate change is not only inevitable but already underway, how are we to live with it?
Writing about climate change by Meehan Crist, McKenzie Funk, Malcolm Gaskill and Francis Gooding.
Writing about fashion by Angela Carter, Rosemary Hill, E.S. Turner, Elaine Showalter, John Harvey and Alice Spawls.
Writing about the White House by Christopher Hitchens, Jenny Diski, Stephen Greenblatt, Linda Colley, J. Hoberman, David Runciman, Michael Rogin and Colm Tóibín.
Writing about authoritarianism by Mary Beard, James Meek, Linda Colley, Walter Laqueur, Hilary Mantel, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Lloyd Parry.
Writing about Russian Americans by Jenny Turner, Hans Keller, Hari Kunzru, Christopher Reid, John Lanchester and Craig Raine.
Writing about constitutional crises by Bernard Porter, Ferdinand Mount, Hilary Mantel, Alan Bennett, Blair Worden, Patricia Beer, Stephen Sedley and Sionaidh Douglas-Scott.
Writing about Christmas by Brigid Brophy, Charles Nicholl, Wendy Doniger, Terry Castle, Frank Kermode, Hilary Mantel, James Wood and Alice Spawls.
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