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Harry Mount
Book Review
A definitive biography of Liz and Dick, Hollywood’s most controversial and glamorous couple
Roger Lewis answers what it is about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor that still hooks us in
By Harry Mount
Europe
Women think about the Roman Empire, too
Professor Mary Beard told me: ‘I must confess that I probably think about the Roman Empire about fifty times a day’
By Harry Mount
Art
The Romans were graffiti masters
They swore like us. They were obsessed with sex, like us. And they wrote their rudest thoughts on walls — in a much more obscene way than we do
By Harry Mount
Book Review
Lady Caroline Lamb and the frantic bed-hopping between the great houses of England
Antonia Fraser paints a convincing, shocking picture of upper-class mores in the late eighteenth century
By Harry Mount
Book Review
Curtis Sittenfeld is the great American observer
In
Romantic Comedy
, we get her insight into a new phenomenon — celebrity of the modern age
By Harry Mount
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