In an email interview, she revealed that magical realism is new to her reading diet, and expressed fondness for the March sisters — especially Beth. SCOTT HELLER What books are on your night stand? At...
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The Crystal Palace, that magnificent cast-iron and glass edifice that had stood in a park in south London since 1854, a testament to Victorian ingenuity and enterprise, burnt down on a chilly November...
01.01.2026 Telegraph.co.ukSome new years arrive loudly, demanding reinvention and grand declarations. Others arrive more quietly—like a book opened mid-chapter, where the past still lingers in the margins but the next page wai...
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As 2025 drew to a close, the feeling of living through end times intensified. We witnessed how the banality of evil—so eloquently described by Hannah Arendt during Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem—...
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The Brontës in Brussels Helen MacEwan Pushkin Press ISBN: 9781805680345 November 2025 ‘Brussels is my promised land’ Charlotte Brontë A fascinating look at a crucial turning point in the Brontë sisters’ lives In 1842, five years before they would become bestselling authors, Charlotte Brontë and her sister Emily arrived in Brussels. They were there to improve their French and German, but the years they spent in a pensionnat being taught by the charismatic Constantin Heger would do much more than ...
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Upon entering the White House in January 2025, Donald Trump launched a trade policy ostensibly to reduce the US trade deficit with major partners, including China and the EU, by imposing tariffs on su...
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