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The Jesus and Mary Chain’s feedback-laden, garage-rock-indebted sound was the second most talked-about element of the Scottish indie band in their early years; the first was the crowd violence that ...

“I beg you to send me immediately the remaining Vols:”, Henry Fielding wrote to Samuel Richardson in October 1748. Fielding was requesting the final volumes of Clarissa; or, The History of a Young ...

Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam is a series of impossible elegies. The poems respond to the recovery from the River Thames in 2001 of the torso of a Black boy, named Adam by police officers. The unknown child ...

Recipes can take many forms, from detailed sets of instructions to simple lists. Stuck to my refrigerator is a carefully laminated card containing my sister-in-law’s guide (in French) to making ...

History is too important to be left to the (academic) historians. We have been hearing this quite a bit of late. In India’s current political climate, deriding historians has become almost second ...

“People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No; what’s the good of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.” Dorothy Parker has the fortune to be remembered as young – as ...

For the foreseeable future, any discussion of democracy in the media seems destined to be preoccupied with its very survival. The women writing this collection do not seek to define what democracy is, ...

London in 1984 was a city of crumbling council estates, gleaming dockside developments, radical music festivals, antiracist protests and police violence. It was not a single capital city, Stephen ...

It is a courageous soul who would take on the challenge of writing a Life (even a partial Life) of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The man lived a long time for his era, from 1646 to 1716. That is seventy ...