In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of ...
Ronald Reagan, as Jackson Lears wrote recently in the LRB, was a ‘telegenic demagogue’ whose ‘emotional appeal was built on white people’s racism’. His presidency left the United States a far more ...
An honest account of energy history would conclude not that energy transitions were a regular feature of the past, ...
It’s not news that Trump is a creature of the society of the spectacle. Creature and master, emanation and accelerant. He is ...
The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to ...
No doubt, some individuals have always pulled levers behind the scenes to benefit themselves and their ...
Music critic Ian Penman is back with a pioneering book of essays alluding to a lost moment in musical history ‘when cultures collided and a cross-generational and “cross-colour” awareness was born’.
Édouard Louis, one of France’s most acclaimed young writers, shot to international fame with his first novel, the semi-autobiographical 'End of Eddy'. His third novel, 'Who Killed My Father', revisits ...
Now you see, Urania, where the amphitheatre was.They built it, like the ancient Greeks, all open plan.Provisioned with natural acoustics, the space betweenthe two largest outcrops accommodates a crowd ...