On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal ...

All post-liberals have at one point or another declared themselves anti-libertarian. Why is it, then, that once in ...

Despite his nostalgia for monarchical institutions, de Gaulle keenly admired Clemenceau, a staunch republican. In his War ...

Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World, recently on display at London’s Michael Werner Gallery, does not try to cover all ...

Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand ...

Parry, who died last month, had a business card in the early 1990s that described him as ‘Jonty ...

Anne Higonnet is a professor of art history at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is​ the queen of excess, who teaches us the lessons of history with shepherdess costumes and lace ruffles.

L ate ​ in Claire-Louise Bennett’s novel Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, the unnamed protagonist goes to Montevideo to participate in a ‘panel discussion about violent scenes from movies’. She had hesitated to ...

In his great essay on Surrealism from 1929 Walter Benjamin too underscored its anarchistic dimension. The Surrealists were ‘the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal-moral-humanistic ideal of ...

Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Vallejo was born in 1892, the youngest of eleven children, in an Andean town in the north of Peru. Using the word for a child ...

I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a ‘classical’ search engine like ...