Occasionally when the phone rang at the London Review offices in the late 1990s it would be the operator asking if ...

James is joined by Richard King, Rory Scothorne and Andy Beckett to makes sense of the devolved and local election results last week and consider what the collapse of old party loyalties and the rise ...

Before he took to writing thrillers in the early 1960s, Len Deighton, who died in March at the age of 97, had worked as a railway clerk, a kitchen porter, a pastry chef, a flight attendant and a ...

Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, ...

Before the final yesterday I was puzzled as to why Jennifer Hudson was singing the US national anthem: did they think ...

If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of ...

This concept of subjecthood soon applied in England’s infant colonies, including in America, where, after the Revolution, it ...

My friend Jawad Ali, a Palestinian American lawyer, was at his daughter’s graduation last month when he got a call from his sister in the West Bank. ‘She was crying, almost hysterical,’ he said, as ...

Would the Founding Fathers recognise the modern United States as the republic they declared in 1776? The nation formed from Britain’s North American colonies has become the most powerful and ...

We may have mixed feelings about the title of Steven Spielberg’s new movie, Disclosure Day. Doesn’t it sound a bit legal? How close is ‘disclosure’ to its apparent synonyms ‘revelation’ and ‘exposure’ ...

Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference fit with ...