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Can there be poetic justice in politics? Perhaps once in a lifetime. In 1989, a young Viktor Orbán bravely told the. ..

From the 16th century onwards, as European powers feverishly colonised the world, the possibility of a Northern Sea. ..

Despite Henrik Pontoppidan winning the Nobel Prize in 1917, there was no English-language version of this extraordinary. ..

The rise of democracy coincided with the transition from wood to coal, and decolonisation in the 20th century. ..

Printmaker, portraitist, landscape artist, theatre designer and illustrator, William Nicholson slips through the fingers. ..

What’s the use of reconstructing past climates if climate change has ‘ruptured’ the connection between past, ...

Harvey C. Mansfield contends that modernity was not a slowly unwinding process, but emerged at a stroke in Machiavelli. ..

De Kooning’s Suburb in Havana is a counter-revolutionary painting. Well, of course. It is counter-revolutionary. ..

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. ..