In March of this year, a case in Rotherham once again forced the United Kingdom to confront a reality it…
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, From Hellmarsh With Love, which is being released…
WASHINGTON — I have spent the last three weeks in a very pleasant place, Europe. Not in Moscow, nor in…
Augustus Welby Pugin (1812–1852) is in the news these days in the United Kingdom because he designed the iconic London…
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age By Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press, 516 pages, $32)…
Three months ago, colorful crowds caroused in the streets of London as the queen stepped onto the Buckingham Palace balcony…
Good taste is in free fall. Also in free fall are manners, protocols, and formality. And London’s Savile Row, the…
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is on the verge of introducing congestion pricing. In a risky and unprecedented move,…
The Turning Point: 1851 — A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Knopf, 368 pages,…