A.S.H. Smyth

Cardinal Richelieu is transformed from villain to ‘physical and moral genius’ in Dumas’s sequel to The Three Musketeers

Swash and buckle aplenty

18 February 2017 9:00 am

A feeble king and his scheming minister, a hunchback noble and the Daughters of Repentance, a botched assassination and a…

Cardinal Richelieu is transformed from villain to ‘physical and moral genius’ in Dumas’s sequel to The Three Musketeers

Swash and buckle aplenty

16 February 2017 3:00 pm

A feeble king and his scheming minister, a hunchback noble and the Daughters of Repentance, a botched assassination and a…

The spell of the pharaohs

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Here’s a book to make an Egyptologist of everyone. A compendium of accepted gen on the gift of the Nile,…

Heroes in error

6 August 2016 9:00 am

In the first year or so of the Iraq occupation — or ‘big Army goatfuck’, as it is not quite…

Missing in action

18 June 2016 9:00 am

‘Missing in action is the worst state to which we can lose a human being,’ avers Commodore (Ret.) Ajith Boyagoda…