There is still time to book for Dan Brown in Dublin and hear how he does it.

Philip Larkin is still among Britain’s most read poets, which must testify to a certain appetite for gloom. Alan Bennett however finds it is sometimes all a little too much.

Dancing in the Regency period may have looked from a distance like a straitlaced and buttoned-up affair, but it was vital to the reproduction of ‘good society’ and charged with excitement and sexual energy.

A new study examines silence in the Christian tradition and its use for good and evil.

Liam Carson has been shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature/Ondaatje prize for his memoir of his parents, Call Mother a Lonely Field.

Some people think it sounds harsh, and some very eminent Germans historically thought it wouldn’t do, but spoken by the right person it will make you swoon.

Remembering the wonderful English actor Richard Griffiths, who died last week aged sixty-five.