An ocean-going navy is not a workaday public service, like a coastguard or a constabulary. It is a grand project, ...

There is no doubt of the success of the effect, this slapstick without ridicule, but how has Flaubert managed, throughout the ...

All the little aliens in the Duane Barry episode are children wearing huge grey heads. Between takes they ran around, playing ...

Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...

It is almost the inverse of the Disney parks where you pay to have a prepared experience offered to you. At Ghibli ...

In no sense was Frank Auerbach a topographical artist. Primrose Hill, Mornington Crescent and the entrance to his ...

James Meek talks to Tom about his latest report from Ukraine, where he spent time in Kharkiv and Kupiansk in the east of the country. In Kharkiv, he found a population living in fear not only of the ...

‘Now you will see a film,’ says a close-up of a mouth with not much face to go with it.