When Lillian Ross profiled the celebrated novelist, the world saw ridicule and ruin. But letters between the reporter and her ...

When it opened in 1962, the bar was a hangout for writers such as Marguerite Duras, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. It had lost some of its luster but is now being revived by ...

James H Jackson, who has died aged 61, was a risk analyst and authority on counter-terrorism, and drew on his expertise to ...

All the colonies around the world had to pay the highest price for liberating themselves from the shackles of colonisation.

He went on to spy on Nazis and fifth columnists, rub shoulders with Ernest ... in Paris in 1913. “When I got off the boat train in Paris, I was as excited as a kid on Christmas morning. Here I was in ...

From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...

Born on July 21. 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was the second-oldest of six siblings. His mother was a local musician who taught him to play the cello while his father brought him out to the family’s ...

The World Monuments Fund has chosen the Zaragoza town among 25 worldwide locations for which it will raise funds. The 1937 ...

History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

Leicester Hemingway founded New Atlantis, a raft-turned-micronation intended to support marine life in the region Fred Nadis In June 1944, the veteran journalist hid on a hospital ship so she ...