
Faced with a parade of flushed Madonnas and anguished Christs, it would be easy to think that Fra Angelico was somehow. ..

Most of the characters in Marty Supreme believe their lives are a kind of movie, and when a character speaks of ‘. ..

Anti-communist dandy, scourge of Ivy League administrators, magazine chieftain, amanuensis to Joe McCarthy, father-. ..

Who was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T. S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around? ...
Given that the most widely accepted date for the start of the Wars of the Roses is 1455, it is unsurprising that the. ..

Trying to psychoanalyse historical figures is rarely productive, but Cicero was a type we can all recognise. He had a. ..

The choice of narco-trafficking as the pretext is partly motivated by a desire to skirt even the feeble murmurs that. ..

China, which in the post-Cold War period was viewed as either lunch for American capital or an irredeemable dungeon, has. ..

Netanyahu is trying to absolve himself of a guilt whose reality he denies. He wants to be declared innocent without. ..

In September, a suitcase filled with sculptural odds and ends was discovered beneath a spiral staircase in Louise. ..

What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman. ..

The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however. ..