Thanks to The American Revolution, Ken Burns’s new documentary, some of us have recently learned that George Washington had much the same idea 250 years ago, when the Continental Army advanced on ...

All Jilly Cooper’s novels offer the exact kind of heady escapism we could all do with more of, but perhaps none more so than ...

Escapism is marked by "a habitual diversion of the mind." Every day, it gives millions of us much-needed distraction from the monotony of the daily grind. The Cambridge Dictionary defines escapism as ...