JULY 11. 2025

Vincent Brown: What Universities Owe

When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms. ..

Jon Day: The Beautiful Ones

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

Stephen Buranyi: Folding and Unfolding

How and why do proteins, which are produced by our body to build structures or carry out tasks. ..

Eleanor Nairne: At the Whitney

Alice Neel liked to say that she painted all of a person: ‘What the world has done to them and their retaliation’. ...

Gazelle Mba: Diary

Alau Dam, twenty kilometres to the south of Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, ...

Colin Burrow: Let custards quake

Satire​ is a great angry sprawling mass. It’s one of those literary phenomena which is impossible to define but. ..

Anthony Grafton: No Cheese Please

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

Becca Rothfeld: Whatevership

Tony Tulathimutte recognises that the internet has all the elements of great fiction: Talmudic feats of interpretation, ...

Anna McGee: In Florence

Marie D’Aguanno Ito compares Orsanmichele market to Wall Street. It had many features of the pre-electronic exchange. ..

Ange Mlinko: Morbid Symptoms

A lot of contradictions are laid out in Theory and Practice, and one’s tolerance for graduate students – clearly. ..

Jonathan Parry: Every Mother’s Son

The publication​ of The Four Feathers in 1902 established A. E. W. Mason’s reputation as a writer of adventure stories. Over the next forty years, the book sold nearly a million copies. The. ..

Nicole Flattery: Priests are human too

Anyone who grew up​ in a small Irish town knows what it feels like to live under surveillance. Tech autocrats have. ..

Barbara Everett: An East Wind behind it

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

Huw Lemmey: Short Cuts

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the. ..

David Trotter: Putt for Dough

Golf lends itself to spectacle. There’s a special thrill to the shape of the perfectly hit shot, a kind of lingering, ...

Adam Shatz: The World since 7 October

The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it. ..

Jackson Lears: The Righteous Community

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

JULY 10. 2025

The problem of vanishing video games

The companies that make some online games now want to retire them, which raises the question – who actually owns things nowadays?

Starmer makes progress – and the europhobes can’t stand it

The PM’s meeting with Emmanuel Macron has brought the Brexit ghouls out in a chorus of whingeing. It seems they prefer Britain to be isolated

Whose game is remembered?

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.