Jimmy Stewart, because (1) he`s had an illustrious career as an actor and (2) at 81 he`s still up and around, comfortably occupies that niche we reserve for beloved public personages. He`s a bona fide ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of my darkest memories of studying English literature at school is being made to write a list of bullet ...

Thomas Gray (1716–1771) occupies a serious place in any standard list of English poets, even though he published only 13 poems in his lifetime and his collected poetry — including his Latin poems, ...