When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms. ..
Those who keep them as pets know them to be clean, gregarious creatures with a highly developed social life, but for. ..
Alice Neel liked to say that she painted all of a person: ‘What the world has done to them and their retaliation’. ...
Alau Dam, twenty kilometres to the south of Maiduguri, the capital of the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, ...
Satire is a great angry sprawling mass. It’s one of those literary phenomena which is impossible to define but. ..
The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described. ..
Tony Tulathimutte recognises that the internet has all the elements of great fiction: Talmudic feats of interpretation, ...
Marie D’Aguanno Ito compares Orsanmichele market to Wall Street. It had many features of the pre-electronic exchange. ..
A lot of contradictions are laid out in Theory and Practice, and one’s tolerance for graduate students – clearly. ..
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. ..
Anyone who grew up in a small Irish town knows what it feels like to live under surveillance. Tech autocrats have. ..
Ungodly power, random power, power courses everywhere through Hamlet like fog with an east wind behind it – even Osric. ..
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the. ..
Golf lends itself to spectacle. There’s a special thrill to the shape of the perfectly hit shot, a kind of lingering, ...
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it. ..
Once the US became the world’s only superpower, universalist fantasies proliferated. But after 9/11 they widened, ...
The companies that make some online games now want to retire them, which raises the question – who actually owns things nowadays?
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