Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never. ..
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Now that the war is so long ago, the subject of Nazi exiles in South America can seem a stale, even dubious. ..
Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force is. ..
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Metal was the material of the age, and Richard Hunt animated it. Now his sculptures speak not to the possibilities and. ..
Professional tennis requires extraordinary psychological capacities – obsessive focus, epic self-belief – so it. ..
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Ryan Coogler’s horror movie Sinners was conceived and filmed before Trump’s re-election, but part of its premise. ..
We can feel imprisoned by other people’s versions of who we are, especially if their urge is to blame. On one hand, ...
It would be tempting to repeat the salacious stories told about Augustus the Strong, but Tim Blanning has instead. ..
The standard assessment of the British armed forces is that they have become ‘hollowed out’. The army has too few. ..
Stephen Hawking may have been a genius, but ‘Roger Penrose’s insights seem to stem from some superhuman life-form. ..