In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th ...

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It’s an interesting conceit for Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou in his new book, Dealing with the Dead – but it’s not his strongest work ...

Joan Aiken’s neo-Gothic; Joseph Roth’s family epic.

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As the final generation of Holocaust survivors passes on, the books will remain as "material survivors, as witnesses." ...

Now, he has written a short history of British architecture, aimed at the "intelligent layman". As Jenkins takes us through the various styles (Palladianism, the gothic revival, etc.), it sometimes ...

To wit: why have a lantern, asks FPS Mohrta, when you can have a horrible vulture-esque creature called a lantern beast that ...

Jesmyn Ward's fourth novel follows Annis, a young, enslaved woman, on her journey through the underworld of the American ...

The 1940s was a decade shaped by global conflict, post-war reconstruction, and the rise of Modernist ideals. And the ...

The French private island and accompanying château at 9,500,000 euros, exclusively through Bretagne Nord Sotheby’s ...