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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. ..

It sometimes feels as if we shall never hear the last of the Mitfords. What Jessica, one of Deborah Devonshire’s older. ..

Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole. ..

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

Years of austerity alongside the rise of an increasingly kleptocratic and predatory elite have steadily eroded the state. ..

Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of. ..

Assuming she remains prime minister after this month’s election, Takaichi Sanae will focus on the immediate economic. ..