The First World War haunts Joanna Miller’s meditative debut The Eights (Fig Tree, £16.99; Tablet price £15.29) which begins ...

In the early years of the fourth century, the Emperor Diocletian initiated Rome’s last and greatest persecution of ...

His Academy Award-winning portrayal of the cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs was ...

What was it like to live with William Shakespeare? To love a man who, as his wife says in this film adaptation of Maggie ...

What most draws me to a book is the confluence between the voice of the writer and the subject, and Carla Kaplan’s biography ...

After its 2019 blaze left Notre Dame de Paris open to the sky, heritage officials decided to fire-proof the lofts above ...

When did Britain stop being a poetry-loving nation? Half a century ago, the world seemed full of popular reciters, with ...

Pope Leo appealed for one day of peace on Christmas Day 2025. He was ignored. Around the globe, fighting continued. Russia ...

The Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis Bernard Hebda pleaded for prayers and calm after an immigration official shot ...

The Musical – and given the reviews and word of mouth, that’s an understandable ambition – tickets are already ...

Ask someone to imagine a Cold War spy and chances are they will think of someone resembling George Smiley, the shadow master ...

I grew up in a refugee camp in Bethlehem. My name is Ibrahim. I want to say to you all that when I come into a church, I feel ...