The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...
The main road west from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was abandoned by travellers during the war in the ...
A version in Scots of a Sumerian hymn to the goddess of love and war, attributed to the priestess Enheduanna of Ur (fl. 2255 ...
The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or ...
Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published ...
On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was ...
Jonathan Rée explains the ways in which Camus’s philosophy differed from that of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, ...
Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and ...
What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big, blinding event: kaboom! Vulcanologists, seismologists, geologists and ...
Among the poems Edward Thomas drafted in 1916, shortly before he was posted to France, was ‘As the team’s head-brass’. The poet, seated in the boughs of a fallen elm, watches a ploughman at work ...