The best cities for book lovers in the British Isles
Strike out on the paper trail and discover six bookish cities with vibrant literary connections
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Strike out on the paper trail and discover six bookish cities with vibrant literary connections
Typing this column into a not-very-smartphone on a crowded commuter train, I found that rail minister Huw Merriman’s surname kept auto-correcting itself to “Merriment”. He’s provided plenty of it this week.
When was the earliest recorded British joke? Ian Hislop scours the country to find out.
It’s all very well Greece wanting its rightful treasure – but the Brits have left some pretty good artefacts lying around the planet. Surely it’s time they came home?
Soper’s opera is intimately concerned with the ways women construct themselves with and against patriarchy in the internet age.