On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...

Some parishioners morphed into willing Protestants; defiant Catholics – recusants – refused to attend services; other ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in ...

Anne Higonnet is a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is​ the queen of excess, who teaches us the lessons of history with shepherdess costumes and lace ruffles.

L ate ​ in Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the unnamed protagonist goes to Montevideo to participate in a ‘panel discussion about violent scenes from movies’. She had hesitated to ...

In his great essay on Surrealism from 1929 Walter Benjamin too underscored its anarchistic dimension. The Surrealists were ‘the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal-moral-humanistic ideal of ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from his personal physician in New York asking me to arrange for him to be seen by ‘one of ...