In the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, I got into an argument with an Israeli woman who was tearing down ...
The Sahara is now one of the most inhospitable places on earth, but not because of the desert. It is a dumping ground ...
Towards the end of April, a bus with fifteen foreign journalists headed north from Kyiv to Chornobyl ...
James Bryce is mostly known today for his surveys of two of history’s great federations: The Holy Roman Empire and The ...
The Effingers – which had the working title ‘The Eternal Stream’ – is just such a novel. Over 800 pages and 150 chapters, it ...
Earlier Mrs Wren had appeared entirely joyful holding her husband’s hand in the outer corridor – yet how she wept inside of the courtroom, so much so that her face looked enamelled. And this could all ...
Eighty years on, Dead of Night stands as an astute meditation on repression and madness. Time, however, has dulled ...
Unlike 20th-century communism or fascism, contemporary Russian ideology does not have a clearly articulated manifesto ...
Internally, the central figure, as Walter Reid suggests in his awkwardly titled biography, was Ramsay MacDonald. He was the ...