I don’t suppose Donald Trump or Keir Starmer saw the row of flags, black, white and green with a red triangle, on ...

During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, ...

Israel’s allies are still buying time for Israel to change course or come to a deal with Hamas over how many trucks ...

Preliminary data published in 2021 strongly suggested that testing positive for Covid was linked to a traumatic ...

What does it mean for a jug to be a jug? Or for any thing to be called a ‘thing’? In his 1950 lecture ‘Das Ding’, Heidegger attempts to cajole his audience away from their everyday way of seeing the ...

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I met the great Iranian novelist Mahmoud Dowlatabadi in 2006. We had the same publisher, and through them he sent me a message inviting me to tea at the Azadi Hotel in northern Tehran. At one point he ...

Richard de Bury, an English bibliophile who knew the Sorbonne collection well, warned librarians to keep students away from ...

When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or ...

Orsanmichele market had many features of the pre-electronic exchange model, with its standardised measures and ...

His problem is that, from his mother’s side, he has inherited a fertile imagination and a refined intellect. He is no coward, ...