
Claude Villiaume’s clients appear to have been happy to embrace the notion of arbitrary fortune. For men it turned. ..

One doesn’t read Gwendoline Riley for plot; each of her books is an assemblage of episodes. She wields dialogue like a. ..

Julian Barnes’s latest book is full of broken rules. In the second chapter we’re invited to look back at his early novel Flaubert’s Parrot , which contained, along with. ..

The almost dreamlike movement of the story of The Ipcress File is at times closer to Ishiguro or even Kafka than your. ..

Since 1922, the Labour Party has won in Wales at every general election, and has been the largest party in all of the country’s devolved governments since the National Assembly, now. ..

Rather than the manifestos and self-conscious rejection of inherited tradition seen in European art, Nigerian modernism. ..

The notion of the Great Composer – the individual genius, whose inimitable music is an expression of a singular mind. ..

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve. ..

Lebanon’s civil war did not end in 1990. It assumed new forms and it isn’t over yet. Like my colleagues, I returned. ..

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to be. ..

The careers of Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and Maria Cosway required constant, delicate calibration to keep the. ..

Being underestimated was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s. ..
Pamela Harriman was drawn to power itself, rather than what power could achieve, and had no developed politics of her. ..