Tom Cunliffe tells us of the wonderful life of Virginia Crowell Jones (‘Ginny’ to her friends, and ‘The Madam’ to us all) the late, great Madam of Newport.

Polish roots, French influences, a British identity, and extensive global travels—including a brief stay in India—are a great recipe for being remembered and reinterpreted in diverse cultural contexts ...

I never grow tired of Sydney, even when it seems like millions of people have packed the coastal city during summer vacation.

Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts,’ Joseph Heller once said – ‘and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?’ ...

And when things are going really good like they are right now for St. Joseph by-the-Sea, you start to overcome obstacles when the chips are down for a period of time, while you’re trying to ...

James’ plot seems modeled on the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev’s political novel “Virgin Soil,” which also influenced Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent.” These Gilded Age novels, each of which ...

From Shirley Jackson’s 175-page gothic mystery We Have Always Lived in the Castle to Hemingway’s 112-page fable The Old Man and the Sea ... literature, Conrad’s novel lays bare the horrors ...

Burnham-On-Sea author Damien Boyd is launching his latest novel this month. Damien will be signing copies of ‘Deceived by the Light’ at an exclusive pre-launch event at GW Hurley in Burnham-On-Sea ...

Average Arctic sea ice extent for December was the lowest in the satellite record, in considerable part due to delayed ice growth in Hudson Bay and low extent in the northern Barents Sea. Antarctic ...

Replace Bismarck with Putin and oil with missionaries, and this passage from Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim could almost have been ... after the invasion of Ukraine finds an answer far out to sea in a ...

The Kerch Strait runs between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and separates Crimea's Kerch Peninsula from Russia's Krasnodar region. Rescue workers have now cleared more than 86,000 metric tons ...