Among John Clare’s drawings of ‘pootys’ (snail shells) and birds is a doodle of his...
In the first round of Brazil’s presidential elections on Sunday, 4 October, Flávio Bolsonaro –...
Jordan Bardella was supposed to be a different kind of far-right French politician: young, technically...
Since we are already on the path of no return, I have decided to be optimistic and prepare myself for a world in which...
If Invisible Man risked a too easy transcending of the pain it described, fulfilling one half of the ‘tragicomic’ or...
Whereas in the 18th century David Hume’s irreligion made him a bogeyman, now it is his views on race that have...
Shelagh Delaney had written A Taste of Honey when she was nineteen; it took her ten days. It was staged by Joan...
The title, Switzy, is a flippant nickname for Switzerland, a place like old age: snow-topped, dim and cold. Emma Cline...
Beyond Bedlam sets out to show that there is more to Richard Dadd than the mad artist away with the fairies. Had he not...
The ‘truth’, to the extent that it is not known in advance by insiders or created by a trader to win their bet, is...
Beyond the range of the dog, I knew there were snaky corridors at Meara’s, as...
‘Pumpkin with a Stable Lad’ by George Stubbs (1774). The Yale Centre for British Art, which...
There is a less binary way of thinking about the real and the imaginary and we slip into it (perhaps without knowing) as...
It can be hard to imagine a world in which people justified slavery, yet for most of recorded history enslavement met...
Driving from Kenosha to Racine to Janesville to Milwaukee, I’m conscious that the rules for early voting, absentee...