Roughly two-thirds of the YCBA ’s current holdings once belonged to Mellon himself, with the remainder comprising items purchased by the museum or bequeathed to it. What began as a personal project ...

My boss at the bookshop has said he would sell AI novels if there were clear demand and clear labelling. We ...

At the first interval in the Berlin Staatsoper’s new production of La Vestale, the man to my right turned to me ...

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type ...

It can be hard​ to imagine a world in which people justified slavery, yet for most of recorded history enslavement ...

Thirty years ago,​ well before the advent of Google Street View, I heard about a philosopher invited as a visiting professor ...

Among​ John Clare’s drawings of ‘pootys’ (snail shells) and birds is a doodle of his imagined tombstone. It bears the inscription: ‘HERE Rest the HOPES and Ashes of JOHN CLARE.’ The masons missed the ...

I n ​ 1963 Shelagh Delaney published a story based on the hate mail and begging letters she received when A Taste of Honey ...

By ‘signs in the heavens’, the Spirit would make known to him ‘when I should commence the great work ... and slay my enemies ...

The title, Switzy, is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold. Emma ...

He also directed the homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, to make a list of ‘confirmed’ citizens eligible to vote ...

The pathos of Thiebaud’s things has many sources, which include their tiny monumentality and their drama of small differences: each olive sporting its separate reality. The isolation is achieved in ...