Darryl Accone

From banned books to political activism, Marcus de Jong’s life was a testament to the power of ideas and the human spirit

Tom Holland draws extensively on the great work by the father of history, Herodotus, whose The Histories is a searching, if often discursive, investigation into the roots and…

The work of the French Renaissance philosopher offers wisdom applicable to modern politics

We ought to read them; we want to; we will. Next summer, or winter, when time indoors lends a circumstantial hand. Or next year. And so the pile grows, to be added to deathbed…

Today, 96 years after the great writer’s seminal speech on women in fiction, what has changed?

In this time of conflict, thoughts wander to Bob Dylan’s lyrics and John le Carré’s insights

The battle between Satan and the forces of good has preoccupied writers for aeons

The seminal Spanish novel and its author are difficult to pin down in translation and history

Alexei Navalny’s demise spotlights how death and displacement are portrayed in the media and in literature

Women writers have often been treated badly but the first novel was written by one

This era in politics is crying out for a great chronicler in the mould of the American writer

Scepticism has dogged stories of exploration from Ancient Greece through to Apollo XI

Ideologies are set against profound beliefs as a priest sits at the centre of a storm in a village during the civil war in Greece

Play reveals the intimate effects of military-industrial profiteering

A poem and a novel have resonance for the empires and the events of today