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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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

Vallejo was born in 1892, the youngest of eleven children, in an Andean town in the north of Peru. Using the word for a child ...

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

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 ...