Book Reviews by subject: Myths & Folklore & 19th Century April 2014 Issue Amanda Craig No Fairy-Tale Ending Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness By Paul Binding LR ...

Book Reviews by subject: True Crime & Myths & Folklore March 2004 Issue Tim Heald Pub Idol Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman By James Sharpe LR ...

A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...

My Sister and Other Lovers by Esther Freud ...

John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

No Sketching! - Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy by Charles Darwent ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

Incredible but far from unusual is the story of Hercules’s maternal grandfather. Taken captive defending Kyiv from the ...

On an autumn day in 1680, the 50-year-old Charles II charged Samuel Pepys with an unusual task. Over two three-hour sittings, one on a Sunday evening, the next the following Tuesday morning, the king ...