Remember? How we scratched our names on Taj? Or was it Ajanta?

The final volume of the trilogy on Cicero’s life is a visceral portrayal of the long-lost Roman Empire

Stieg Larsson gets a competent inheritor but the twice-told tale of the sequel should not lead to The Girl Who Created a Storm in a Teacup

A compelling love song for the author’s adoptive home, a city of multiple paradoxes

What the death of Archibald Andrews says about the imperative of tolerance

The rich and complex history of slang demonstrates how we have always felt the need to express all that is raw, emotive and visceral through a pontaneous counter-language

How the politically incorrect ethnic joke keeps us together in the great fraternity of laughter

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…