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Once the US became the world’s only superpower, universalist fantasies proliferated. But after 9/11 they widened, ...

Ungodly power, random power, power courses everywhere through Hamlet like fog with an east wind behind it – even Osric. ..

The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described. ..

Those who keep them as pets know them to be clean, gregarious creatures with a highly developed social life, but for. ..

I arrived​ in Cannes with a terrible line from the festival president’s Sélection officielle ringing in my head. ..

The crux of Daniel Kehlmann’s Director is whether it’s weakness or necessity that makes G. W. Pabst compromise. On. ..

Rory McEwen’s work is not only less concerned with conventional ideas of beauty, it lacks any obvious desire to please. ..

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer of. ..

The house style of the early Partisan Review was hard-headed, truculent, dismissive of religiosity (‘mystification. ..

All the revulsion in Jane DeLynn’s novel can seem antagonistic, but it’s driven by more complicated feelings. ...

Sturm und Drang, or stressand moods –take it as read, an overflow of nerve-force mustexpend itself in some direction, as Herbert Spencer long agoopined … Knockedthis-a-way then that, ...

Children’s books revisited in later life may disappoint, but they are immune to the embarrassment associated with. ..

While they may have converted out of fear for their lives, many New Christians were eager to integrate into mainstream. ..

There is a world which is at times – and today even more – regressive and frightening; cultural analysis must never. ..