‘Generous and reflective’: letters show other sides to macho Ernest Hemingway
In the mid-1930s, the novelist, then a controversial war correspondent, encouraged aspiring writers with frankness and humour ...
Previously unseen intimate David Hockney sketch that was a gift to his dentist put up for sale
An intimate sketch by David Hockney of one of his lovers is coming to the market for the first time, more than half a century ...
‘He erased the entire project’ … the book Stanley Kubrick didn’t want anyone to read to be published
Half a century since the perfectionist director vowed to block it, a critique that dared to discuss flaws in his films is to ...
Why Queen Elizabeth did her own make-up for the Coronation
Queen Elizabeth II did not want her personal beauty adviser to make up her face for the Coronation but she did ask her to go to Buckingham Palace early that morning “in case anything goes wrong”. The ...
Unknown CS Lewis poem on whisky and warm blankets discovered
A previously-unknown poem by CS Lewis, in which he finds inspiration in whisky, warm blankets and the Anglo-Saxon epic ...