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

Roughly two-thirds of the YCBA ’s current holdings once belonged to Mellon himself, with the remainder comprising items purchased by the museum or bequeathed to it. What began as a personal project ...

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 ...

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