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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Andy Burnham will soon become the UK’s seventh prime minister since 2010 and will face many of the same problems that defeated his predecessors, not least the UK’s stubbornly weak economy. To dissect ...

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

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