Sebastian Faulks had 528 pages to work with and he made a good fist of it, slicing through four years of one of history’s most bloody episodes to reveal strata of suffering. Rachel Wagstaff ...

Sebastian Smee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post and the author of "The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals and Breakthroughs in Modern Art." He worked at the ...

with Donostia being the abbreviated Euskara version of Saint Sebastian. Adding around 10 per cent to the bill is always appreciated, although it isn’t expected at bars and pintxos restaurants.

The best time to visit San Sebastian is from May to July. While the majority of this time period falls during peak tourist season, these months offer the best temperatures. San Sebastian is ...

This is the second adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s unforgettable novel Birdsong, adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and directed by Alastair Whatley. Faulks wrote his original novel, part of a trilogy, ...

By 2015 most of that shiny surface was reduced to a hauntingly barren expanse, birthing the world's newest desert and impacting 3 million people that live in the surrounding region. The Aral Sea once ...

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Norman Mailer’s new novel opens with a sequence so good you believe for a moment he may have written the book his friends and critics agreed was inside him. On the coast of Maine, lyrically described, ...

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Ten years ago I was detailed to go for the Independent on a visit to Flanders organised by the historian Lyn Macdonald to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of the Armistice. I spent three days ...

Why art thou cast down, O my soul (Ps. 43:5). Is there ever any ground to be cast down? There are two reasons, but only two. If we are as yet unconverted, we have ground to be cast down; or if we have ...

Sebastian Vettel is a four-time world champion F1 driver currently racing for the Aston Martin F1 team in what will be his final season in the sport. Vettel, born in Heppenheim, Germany on July 3, ...