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‘Art arises, ’ Auden writes, ‘out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not. ..

De Doctrina Christiana matters because it mattered to Milton. You can ignore it and still enjoy his poetry, but if you. ..

It’s understandable that the dead should be angry or vengeful: after all, they have suffered a terrible calamity. ...

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox’s relationship could not withstand the ideological chasm that emerged between them after. ..

As the journalist Dom Phillips came to see it, the deforestation of the Amazon was the work of a stupendously profitable. ..

In a country plagued by corruption, China’s national college entrance exam, the gaokao, is remarkably clean. ‘Open. ..

Over the years Matthiessen, Harold ‘Doc’ Humes and George Plimpton would vie for credit as to who ‘invented’ the. ..

As Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a. ..

AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve. ..

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid, cultivated his own personal army, made up of both Christians and Muslims. ..

The artistic gift of Fatima Haddad – who chose to be known as Baya – was quickly celebrated. But celebration was. ..

The Danish writer​ Olga Ravn has recently published two short novels, one set in the future and one in the past. Both concern insular societies whose members turn on one another with fatal. ..

Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art “. ..

The story​ of archaeology in Egypt usually begins with the Napoleonic expedition of 1798-1801 and Jean-François Champollion’s decipherment of hieroglyphs in 1822. That’s the. ..