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The Manhattan Project, which built the atomic bomb, transmuted pure theory into mass slaughter, and it changed. ..

Gorky was the designated mourner for a vanished moment in Russian culture. He wanted socialism or democracy but he no. ..

In all the years I’ve been going to Cuba, I have never seen such quantities of food and goods on sale as when I. ..

Dror Wahrman argues that ‘it is hard to overestimate – though easy to forget – the cultural significance of the. ..

This World Cup, unlike Russia 2018, is hosted by democratic nations, and unlike Qatar 2022 the walkways to its stadiums. ..

Screwballs aren’t miserabilist-humanist comedies about learning to revel in imperfection; they’re comedies of. ..

In the 1960s, Lebanese society was divided between those who saw armed resistance against Israel as a national duty and. ..

In​ 2018, the German company Bayer bought the US agrochemical giant Monsanto, inheriting not just its vast portfolio of seeds and pesticides, but also thousands of lawsuits alleging that. ..

The Marquis de Morès was an extraordinary villain in an epoch crowded with the vile and the louche. After he killed a. ..

The​ surviving works of St Augustine run to more than five million words. To give some sense of scale, that’s roughly 10 per cent of all the Latin literature extant from before 600 AD, ...

Eroi d’Oro​, an exhibition at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice , contains Georg Baselitz’s final works. He died six days before the show opened, at the age. ..

Bainbridge chose to be seen as a woman who lived on her own terms, but that wasn’t always the way she felt, and she. ..

Nearly fifteen years after Girls, the way Lena Dunham embodied the character of Hannah Horvath doesn’t seem like a. ..

OlmProteus anguinusI live in a cave. Of course I’m immature. That’s how I can breathe underwater. I play the long game. You may never meet me. I can never be sure. I shine in the dark. ..

John Berryman often arrived at lectures and seminars by taxi from whichever rehab clinic was treating him, and. ..

Marilyn Monroe’s image, after Warhol, is still encoded with a vulnerability we instantly recognise, which makes us. ..

Sid Caesar’s brand of intelligent laughter – satirical, sketch-driven, character-based, artful – stood out like a. ..

The protagonist of Hall’s latest book is the wind itself. Helm, the only named wind in the British Isles, blows. ..

Recently​ I had an opportunity to check in on the state of American Catholicism. The occasion was a tradcath wedding. ..

The presidential race could hinge on just a few thousand votes.