These three plays, first published in German in the 1980s, show Botho Strauss developing an enigm...

Following the death of their young daughter, John and Laura visit Venice to try and escape their ...

One-night stands are awkward. One-night stands with animals are more awkward. And when you're as ...

'There are not so many places left where magic reigns without interruption and of all those I kno...

Buddhism is often characterised as oneof the most complex and enigmatic of allthe world's rel...

In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same...

Kazakhstan is colossal in size, complicated in its history, colourful in its culture and is a nat...

The Book of Psalms is one of the most frequently cited books in the New Testament. The Synoptic E...

This Jacobean tragic-comedy by Philip Massinger explores the cultural conflict between Christian ...

This book provides a clear, topical and wide-ranging introduction to the idea of 'the West.' It e...

Nearly sixty years after the defeat of Nazism, some in Germany now feel that the Germans were the...

A native Muscovite, Ostrovsky became Russia's most prolific painter of Mercantile Society and the...