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

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 ...

Global Progress Action was in London at the end of last month, filling Methodist Central Hall with politicians and think tankers of broadly defined ‘progressive’ politics from around the world. The ...

The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or ...

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

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 ...

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

As long as there have been poets, they have been writing war elegies. In this episode, Mark and Seamus discuss responses to the American Civil War (Walt Whitman), both world wars (W.B. Yeats, Wilfred ...

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 ...