The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...

A production fusing traditional Chinese opera with Western classical music took place in London in October, with a performance inspired by the life of Cai Lun, the man credited with the invention of ...

Decoy's portrait might not be hanging on a museum wall ... Talented though they may be, monkeys will never type out the ...

MAYBE the most famous poem based on a painting is WH Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts from December 1938. Do you remember it?

Perhaps no writer had a better talent for capturing the beauty, power, and unpredictability of nature than William ...

Prince William ought to get an award for the most photogenic royal, because he just delivered yet another striking portrait ...

The Porters of Hellsgate have announced their upcoming production of HENRY IV, PARTS 1 AND 2, by William Shakespeare, ...

The band’s very first single, 1978’s controversially titled “Killing an Arab,” is a riff on Albert Camus’s The Stranger, in ...

Bill Nighy has revealed he stole the complete works of Shakespeare from a library to aid his acting career. The star, 74, has told how he began training for the stage and sought to enrol in the ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

Like Queen Elizabeth, she loves horses and a great tiara moment. Kin Cheung - WPA Pool/Getty King Charles and Prince William reportedly make millions in income from contracts that their ...