The off-screen drama surrounding Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster version of the Odyssey stepped up a gear overnight, as the novelist Joyce Carol Oates sought to defend the film-maker from an attack by classicist... Read more »
Judges, politicians, newspaper editors and big spenders: Alan Joyce, the former Qantas chief executive, has revealed how the airline admits members to its private chairman’s lounge. In his memoir, released on Tuesday,... Read more »
My earliest reading memoryThe summer my middle sister was born, my mum and I would walk to the shops at Cherryvalley, in east Belfast, to do her messages, and she’d buy me the latest issue of... Read more »
Mike Joyce, drummer for the Smiths, has announced the publication of his “no-holds-barred” autobiography, The Drums. A description by the publisher said: “The written history of the Smiths is not missing an... Read more »
Patrick Joyce is emeritus professor of history at the University of Manchester and one of the leading social historians of his generation. The illustrious referees for his first academic job in the... Read more »