
Harrison’s life and career was part of the postwar flowering of the avant-garde, which reached its apotheosis in the. ..

In some ways, Amie Barrodale’s first novel, Trip, is a send-up of a culture obsessed with ‘healthmaxxing’, where. ..

The story of the English printing press has no convenient beginning. It makes for inconsistent centennials; a quatercentenary celebration was held in 1877, two quincentenary exhibitions in 1975...

That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be asked. ..

The Ptolemies came too late for many histories of Greece and Egypt and too early for Rome. Alexandria, their capital, ...
Early samurai were members of a professional warrior class who served under a daimyo; they fought with bow and arrow on. ..

While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was by far the most. ..

Lynette Roberts loved obscure words and was not shy about using them. Over the course of two pages, I had to look up ‘. ..

Walls of various kinds are present in almost all of Marlen Haushofer’s writing. They are a means of both entrapment. ..

Whether the causal order of nature is deterministic or partly random, people do not create themselves. So how can it. ..

‘Westerners’ have told themselves a story of their past dominated by a fluke in human history: the rise of a single. ..

The people of Unnimore thought that ‘flitting’ would not come upon them while they lived. As long as they paid the rent, and that was not difficult to do, anxiety did not come near. ..