‘An Invite to Eternity’ begins with ‘dark obscurity’, ‘sad non-identity’ and hellish visionary scenes (‘Where stones will ...

He also directed the homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to make a list of ‘confirmed’ citizens eligible to vote ...

Among​ John Clare’s drawings of ‘pootys’ (snail shells) and birds is a doodle of his imagined tombstone. It bears the inscription: ‘HERE Rest the HOPES and Ashes of JOHN CLARE.’ The masons missed the ...

Lula raised the budget for school lunches, improved access to higher education and free medication, and increased ...

Earlier at her party Simon Shaw had seemed a little excited when I met up with him. Was that sexual interest? – but what did ...

Thirty years ago,​ well before the advent of Google Street View, I heard about a philosopher invited as a visiting professor ...

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

The title, Switzy, is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold. Emma ...

By ‘signs in the heavens’, the Spirit would make known to him ‘when I should commence the great work ... and slay my enemies ...

It can be hard​ to imagine a world in which people justified slavery, yet for most of recorded history enslavement ...

The pathos of Thiebaud’s things has many sources, which include their tiny monumentality and their drama of small differences: each olive sporting its separate reality. The isolation is achieved in ...

I n ​ 1963 Shelagh Delaney published a story based on the hate mail and begging letters she received when A Taste of Honey ...