‘Otherwise, you live’: what Louise Glück tells us about death

In light of the great poet’s passing, Audrey Wong examines how Glück’s own words provide consolation about mortality.

Have we been unfair to Æthelred the Unready?

Jack Farrant explores whether Æthelred the Unready deserves his poor legacy

The perfect books for this autumn

Was Henry V really ‘the greatest man who ever ruled England’?

The gruesome tale of Ethel Cain’s ‘Preacher’s Daughter’.

What’s your Personal Metaphysics?

Romeo and Juliet – is it really a love story?

Barbie: Does it deserve the hype?

Neglecting the North: Margaret Thatcher, Rishi Sunak and the North/South divide

Far from nursery rhymes: William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’