Paul Haigh, the long-standing Racing Post writer and former racing journalist of the year, has died aged 76. Haigh was one of the high-profile signings made by the first Racing Post

The Evidence, Christopher Priest (UK: Gollancz 978-1473231375, £20, 320pp, hardcover) October 2020 I think we can all agree that 2020 was a pretty horrible year. Nonetheless, I am not willing to

Actor, teacher, drama director, scholar and writer Pat Burke, born on May 6th, 1943, in Johnstown, Co Kildare, was a “man for all seasons” (to borrow the title of Robert

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Nature and gratitude — these are two themes that echo throughout 82-year-old Agathe Nadai’s thoughts as she writes her memoir while sheltering at home in Scarsdale. Nadai starts her story in

One of Loyds most famous compositions is the so-called "Charles XII problem", published in 1859. Loyd claimed that this position occurred in a game Charles XII played with his advisor Christian

A supernova is an explosion often caused by the spectacular demise of a dying star. Not surprisingly, that death has a profound effect on everything or, in the case of

Mandy Patinkin and Lena Dunham have joined German filmmaker Julia von Heinz’s next film, “Iron Box,” about a New York businesswoman who decides to take her aging father back to

Captain Francisco de Cuéllar: The Armada, Ireland and the Wars of the Spanish Monarchy, 1578-1606 Francis Kelly  Four Courts Press, €31.50 Review: David Kernek It's September 1588 and what remains of the ill-starred Spanish

In today’s culture, it’s as though black British literary history began relatively recently, and new books are published without reference to or knowledge of what has gone before. This is