The pieces in Wrong Norma are not formally linked but interesting connections among them can be found in the idea ...

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

The foul-mouthed, mean-spirited peasant Marcolf was one of the most well-known literary characters in late medieval Europe. He appears in many poetic works from the 9th century onwards, but it’s in ...

The plum tree’s dying branch by branch, A candelabra going dark. Leaves ticket down, no avalanche, A gangrene inches through ...

Many report still feeling like outsiders in the Netherlands. This legacy of the unspoken and unspeakable – of repression, in ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

It’s the final day of the Republican National Convention. Andrew O’Hagan and Deborah Friedell dissect Trump’s marathon acceptance speech and ask what a second term could look like.

In the later decades of the last century, a new wave of ideas broke across the study of literature throughout the world. Known simply as ‘theory’, it ranged from structuralism to feminism, semiotics ...

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On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...