A shifting array of hundreds of reproductions showing the art and architecture of two millennia, carefully selected ...

In this episode, Mark and Seamus consider the different ways Jay Bernard’s 'Surge' and Kei Miller’s 'In Nearby Bushes' respond to the shocking events they depict, while also incorporating them into a ...

Repetition, according to Hegel, plays a crucial role in history: when something happens just once, it may be dismissed as an accident, something that might have been avoided if the situation had been ...

The London Review of Books is the largest cultural, political and literary magazine in Europe and has an unparalleled international reputation for long form literary journalism. Published every two ...

Suddenly, there was nothing to complain about. No cruise ships went up the Giudecca Canal. There were no tourists clogging up the narrow streets. Piazza San Marco was often completely deserted. On ...

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Early last year, Jeremy Corbyn and his wife went to Newcastle and took the bus the short distance up the coast to Blyth in Northumberland, to see their old friend, the former Labour MP and miners’ ...

Christopher Clark explains why the revolutions of 1848 weren’t failures, and why we should think about them now.

In the month leading up to the Chris Pincher scandal, which finally did for Boris Johnson, there was a flurry of bleak news about the state and future of the British economy. Inflation hit a ...

The Difference In those days, fearlessness hadn’t come to mean bravery yet, just an absence of fear. What they called holiness could mean the drama of reindeer stampeding counter-clockwise in the snow ...

Have you ever experienced the love of an animal? Jack, my family’s golden retriever, put on an admirable show of adoring all of us, but we knew his deepest attachment was to my mother, on whose lap he ...

Last May , I was invited to the Ministry of Justice to take part in a discussion of ‘Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation’ (Slapps): legal cases whose purpose is to harass, intimidate and ...