Richard Wollheim once recalled receiving a postcard from Adrian Stokes some time in the early 1960s (the postcard, he said, ...
Girning about hydro power in Strathglass is a bit like moving to Soho and complaining about the noisy nightlife.
F ootball players and managers often use the phrase ‘the dark arts’ to refer to practices that stretch, but don’t always break, the rules. Examples include time-wasting of various kinds, feigning ...
It is an existential condition that we never know the internal state of another being with certainty. Andrea Celenza, Transference, Love, Being The superego, which has all too easily passed into ...
It isn’t necessary to care about any of this to have a nice time at the Lohengrin thermal baths, a short drive from Bayreuth, the Bavarian town where the Wagner festival has been held almost every ...
But by the late 1600s, the most important commodity from Russia’s forests was no longer fur or fish; it was the trees themselves. The expanding Russian Empire required a naval fleet to defend itself: ...
Things are normal,’ Sofya texted me on Sunday. ‘People really can’t wait to vote. It’s a good ...
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Tom McCarthy, writing in the London Review of Books, described James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ as a ‘heavy book, a book full of ...
They see themselves as resurrecting the barricades of 1968, and reclaim ‘La Marseillaise’ when they march. If one of the ...
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