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Welcome to Oxford University in the era of identity politics, where students discuss “lived experience”, acknowledge their ...

In the summer of 1953, Muriel Spark – not yet the famous novelist behind The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie – was en route from ...

Taylor Jenkins Reid loves to research before writing. She's penned novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in “The Seven ...

John le Carré meets Evelyn Waugh in Mann’s terrific second novel (after The Torqued Man), set mostly in California on the eve ...

This well-researched biography of Muriel Spark offers fresh insights into her life and work, writes Allan Massie ...

One of my favourites moments in Sydney Pollack’s 1985 film adaptation of Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa comes when Meryl Streep tries to divert a flow of water that threatens her coffee crop. She stands ...

The enduring fascination that has evolved around Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited has been extraordinary since it ...

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But when your friend arrives he is already accompanied – by a stranger: a stout, elderly man named Evelyn Waugh. You have a long day's journey ahead of you. In his book A Tourist in Africa, published ...

A man convicted of stabbing award-winning British author Salman Rushdie in 2022 was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison, the maximum possible term. Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty in ...

Convinced of her own brilliance, Gertrude Stein wished to be ‘as popular as Gilbert and Sullivan’ and laboured tirelessly to ensure that her celebrity would outlive her. @sophieolive examines the real ...