Years ago, in these pages, I confessed that I have read Daniel Defoe’s 1719 fictional tale, “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” multiple times, as well as listened to the audio version. Crusoe’s ...

On Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures by Richard West. Boswell records that Samuel Johnson had read Daniel Defoe and “allowed a considerable share of merit to a man, who, bred a ...

Pulitzer prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee, looks at the state of the arts in Trump's America, and the story of Daniel Defoe's secret life as a spy, against Scottish independence, in the early ...

Daniel Defoe in the Pillory, Eyre Crowe’s 1862 painting of Defoe’s punishment for sedition. Image / Supplied Defoe features prominently in A Spy Amongst Us, Marc Mierowsky’s fascinating new history of ...