D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with ...

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 ...

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

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 ...

Controversy over Cecil Rhodes began long before the recent campaign to remove statues of him from the University of Cape Town and the front of Oriel College, Oxford. Schreiner’s accusations led Rhodes ...

On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was ...

The first true lab rat was the Wistar rat, a strain specifically bred for biomedical research. In his “rat universe” experiments, John B. Calhoun placed large numbers of these rats in a controlled ...

The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s most autobiographical novel, and the first she published after her identity as a woman was revealed. A ‘dreamscape’ version of her Warwickshire childhood, the ...