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

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

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. ..

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

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. ..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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